The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27266 February 5 2019
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: BRIG, Dublin, Famous Liverpudlian, YUM.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27266 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Apparently retired city bishops spilt the beans | BLABBED |
| British soldier back in prison | BRIG |
| Case of Navajo and the sleep that never ends? Most curious! | NOSIEST |
| Cold-blooded customers can make a canon sad | ANACONDAS |
| Doctor has to sleep over in empty synagogue | SPIKE |
| Expose oneself to copper wearing hip designer’s latest | INCUR |
| Famous Liverpudlian flag, 50 for a penny | LENNON |
| Get rid of priest, worried about mind finally failing | ELIMINATE |
| Henry breaking policeman’s teeth | CHOPPERS |
| I am a droll, outlandish creature | ARMADILLO |
| I see Bacon wrongly getting great respect | OBEISANCE |
| Idiot fiancé prepared for instruction | EDIFICATION |
| It makes a loud noise and it smells | HOOTER |
| Keep on smooching, being very close | neck and neck |
| Make changes to what one eats, promoting energy | EDIT |
| One who dishes out fast food to audience | DONOR |
| Painter drawn to East End longing for some theatrics | OPERA |
| Permissible in each game | POKER |
| Process intended to avoid a course of drugs | TREATMENT |
| Prophet rejected peculiar feature of the body | SOMATIC |
| Restrict supply of booze? There’s a reason | RATIONALE |
| Revolutionary man of the cloth, one swapping with European | LENIN |
| Riots flaring in the middle of Dublin’s port | BRISTOL |
| Strike ban announcement covering particular craft | IKEBANA |
| Sweet given Her Majesty’s approval, perhaps a moneymaker | royal mint |
| Teacher’s upset, being given single meatball | RISSOLE |
| They mind the sultanas not being whole | EUNUCHS |
| Top chap riding white horses well? | SURFACE |
| Top-class Olympic venue reluctant at first to identify seducer | LOTHARIO |
| Unique reason for not lighting up? | MATCHLESS |
| Variable? I hesitate to say, I like it! | YUM |
| Woman’s wedding announcement removed from case | ANN |