The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27333 April 24 2019
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: DEED, EFFENDI, Miss Pecksniff, Outmanoeuvre Charlie.
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| Clues | Answers |
| Aristocrat using good French in retirement | NOB |
| Attend prison, leaving note for 1950s dropout | BEATNIK |
| Carrier starts to ship goods, securing awfully bad deal | SADDLEBAG |
| Carved toggle teens sported touring our country | NETSUKE |
| Circles in which literary princess is offered culinary herb | OREGANO |
| Crew beginning to digest a poem __ one by Kipling | MANDALAY |
| Delaying getting accommodation for books, perhaps | SHELVING |
| Detached territory, one with seaside feature spanning lake | ISLAND |
| Draw attention to rebuff outside bank | SPOTLIGHT |
| Exploit of daughter on river | DEED |
| Fairly plump soldiers about to take a French course | ROUNDISH |
| Geometrician rejected books, heading off one arguing in defence | TOPOLOGIST |
| High-ranking old Turk’s aim visiting parts of Fife | EFFENDI |
| It may be fired about 45 inches in temper | PELLET |
| Limited view initially of girl missing point, hating some Brits | ANGLOPHOBE |
| Miss Pecksniff, for example, showing wariness about appeal | CHARITY |
| Naval force represented by rising male artist | ARMADA |
| Old prison mother will inevitably visit, do we hear? | MARSHALSEA |
| Outmanoeuvre Charlie, reluctant washer-up | DISHCLOTH |
| Perpetrator of terrible crimes __ a soldier, possibly | MISCREANT |
| Pirate captain twinkles, entertaining last of many children | kiddywinks |
| Podgy head of company introducing partner | CHUBBY |
| Port Wellington left before onset of engagement | BOOTLE |
| Pure evil on the up! Not taken to court about it? | UNSULLIED |
| Result of the writer supporting public business enterprise | OUTCOME |
| Striking? Police officers are doing it regularly | ARRESTING |
| Terminates alliances | AXES |
| Trying experience of boy turning up during exam | ORDEAL |
| Way to engage English class | SET |
| Wicked one put out by my sneering? | SCORNFUL |