The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27223 December 17 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: CACAO, DWEEB, RAWHIDE, TEENS.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27223 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A personal assistant, I’m going bust, finally | VALET |
| Always delivery turns up after a term for musicians | alla breve |
| American jerk seeing worker maybe with daughter, bowled over | DWEEB |
| Around South Africa, driest winds blow? | DISASTER |
| Bridge put out | CROSS |
| Conceal oneself behind green coat taken from stock | RAWHIDE |
| Current fine restricts hooligan | OIK |
| Engulfed by flames, amphibian remains | LEFTOVERS |
| Figure working alongside someone who never complains? | NONAGON |
| Food requiring refrigeration in cosy place __ cry about that | single cream |
| Fun with gas and air __ look out of it! | COMEDY |
| Furthest away, a vessel into which I must climb | APOGEAN |
| Game taking day, touring the terraced houses | three-card monte |
| Giant lacking good complexion | HUE |
| Giant uphill in pastoral setting | ORCHARD |
| In Bengal, a thick club | LATHI |
| Irritating thing this explosive, a bomb | HISTAMINE |
| North of the ground, steer into that empty part of Liverpool | TOXTETH |
| Observe, over time, victory inspiring a writer | mark twain |
| Odd characters rubbed out, maybe detective a forgiving type | ABSOLVER |
| Opportunity to play in championship finally gone | OPENING |
| Physicist supreme idiot, they say? | max planck |
| Seeing that schooner, following ship | ASTERN |
| Standard type of blood a short distance inside arm | ORIFLAMME |
| Suffering hilly area, one almost entirely dug up | laid low |
| The winner, me? | first person |
| Tree approximately twice the height of oak? | CACAO |
| Upset over Tibet, on having confined priest, surprisingly? | believe it or not |
| Weapon in range, however, not the first | CUTLASS |
| Youngsters finding last of salmon in river | TEENS |