The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27286 February 28 2019
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: NINETIES, OVERREACT, SANDSTONE, SUEDE.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27286 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Big gun given position in Albert Hall | BERTHA |
| Break assistant initially employed touring the States | PAUSE |
| Can, and reportedly used to, clean in German town | wormwood scrubs |
| Church abandons whim to create popular resort | CAPRI |
| Court order Bury police overturned on time | INTERDICT |
| Dainty swimming aid used by the Spanish | ELFIN |
| Design upset person painting flat | PLANAR |
| Do least well: stop taking malt extract containing sulphur | come off worst |
| Elated over German worker supporting former partner | EXUBERANT |
| Everyone’s in debt keeping lab working: it’s permitted | ALLOWABLE |
| Food shop transformed by caste in Leeds | DELICATESSEN |
| Good woman accommodating learner with pleasure | GLADLY |
| Hearty boatman’s beginning to steer towards the wind | BLUFF |
| In Newcastle, popular liaisons: they were once described as naughty! | NINETIES |
| Jumper mostly sported at entrance to tyre plant | FLEAWORT |
| Knight dined in airport in sumptuous manner | ORNATELY |
| Liberal introducing novel proposition | LEMMA |
| Libyan port’s endless mist absorbed by boy soldier | BENGHAZI |
| Material for gloves taken to court by English | SUEDE |
| Nit-picking fellow going into favourite lines | PEDANTRY |
| Prehistoric relic sons wrapped in metallic sheet | FOSSIL |
| Quietly supported by act protecting western water plant | PONDWEED |
| Rope-maker’s sibling briefly linked with notorious gangster | SISAL |
| Rugby club used to be pretty successful at first | WASPS |
| Sort of rock cake cooked by elderly wife? | GREYWACKE |
| Surprisingly to us, a man spurns a rise in Greece | mount parnassus |
| Tucking into ham, soldiers respond too forcibly | OVERREACT |
| Way a person goes about with first bit of Southend rock | SANDSTONE |