The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27243 January 9 2019
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ACTRESSY, CURRANT, DISORDER, Paris.
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| Clues | Answers |
| A diet not designed as a remedy | ANTIDOTE |
| Close to nothing in charity that’s opening | ALMOST |
| Cold dish using incomplete vessels (below and above water) | SUSHI |
| Complaint caused by command from detective? | DISORDER |
| Crack from unknown imbecile | GOOFY |
| Crop top with short dart in front | HARVEST |
| Desirable quality in grand name of literary siblings | SITWELL |
| Gentle champion’s stopping stock conflicts | wars of the roses |
| Heel’s neighbour caused anger after undressing | ANKLE |
| I caught summer in Paris on a refresher | ice tea |
| Jazzy music involving musical sense is promising | SWEARING |
| Line that stops tongue moving, twisted in knots? | SHOELACE |
| Man in promise to pay on time shows resolve | iron out |
| Marshal calm when changing side repeatedly | ARRAY |
| Men concerned with later life backing part of Mediterranean diet? | OREGANO |
| Most like The Merry Widow being terribly stagey | GAYEST |
| Oppressive old tyrant leading America | ONEROUS |
| Outlaw’s unfeeling ring captures northbound travellers | DESPERADO |
| Peace group requests soldiers possibly to protect brief retreat in quarrel | unpleasantness |
| Principal substituting old boy for a family man | MOBSTER |
| Reason males are excluded from rummage around | ARGUE |
| Rolling fat? | spare tyre |
| Short cannon’s middle-of-the-road rating | MORTAR |
| Something ideal for jamming broadcast, in short | CURRANT |
| Theatrical set, scary in play | ACTRESSY |
| Trader’s tip diluted small change | TWEAK |
| Trivial problem to fall between aristocrat and monarch | no-brainer |
| Unaware of past uprising as some of America is, en masse | AMNESIAC |
| Vegetable: wrap up portion | SHALLOT |
| Watched and heard the writer with no hair | EYEBALLED |