The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27314 April 2 2019
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: BLITHE, EVENTING, FREETOWN, Paddy Ashdown.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27314 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| An agent from the West spoken of | OXIDANT |
| Article on group having rehearsed play | set piece |
| Barrister needing week to stuff chicken? | LAWYER |
| Batting number eleven good, there for long while | LASTING |
| Beer in the evening for this bird? | NIGHTJAR |
| Boundless audacity beginning to irritate old academics | EMERITI |
| Carefree bachelor having much flexibility | BLITHE |
| Composer using silence can shut up | john cage |
| Demon not the first to have capital | FREETOWN |
| Discredit wife leaving prison | NEGATE |
| Drivel for instance Paddy Ashdown put about? | BILGE |
| Either one leaving medicine out in local | ENDEMIC |
| Execution, murder and Girondist’s head | DOING |
| Fruit, halved, originally seen in French school | LYCHEE |
| Headdress so long one wears | TIARA |
| Heavens above, such costs are very steep | sky-high |
| Hector incensed at priest-in-charge | THEOCRAT |
| How long one might be? | LIFESPAN |
| Irish writer and musical craftsman | oliver goldsmith |
| Keen to receive book shedding some light | LAMBENT |
| Making excuse, do cut off a sexual urge | ALIBI |
| No particular interest shown around republic | GABON |
| One supplies accommodation where the Loire flows | HOTELIER |
| Parched Napoleon wants doctor brought in | bone-dry |
| People in need as British interpret policy | BREADLINE |
| Person in red in Scottish dance coming out | FLOWERING |
| Queues to go inside and drink | lines up |
| Showing great dignity knocking the beer back | REGAL |
| Time to expand later period in sport | EVENTING |
| Why is the good and bad bittersweet? | woody nightshade |