The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27334 April 25 2019
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: Condemned English, FLAMINGO, PLEASE, SHARE.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27334 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Adjutant returned after month for papers etc | MEDIA |
| Alluring female is short of shilling after time | HOURI |
| Condemned English art, laying it on thick | slathering |
| Develop case of gangrene, say | GESTATE |
| Division of gas producer changing hands | SHARE |
| Don’t drink tar and varnish! | ABSTAIN |
| Ethereal and extremely attractive hideaway seen from the south | AERIAL |
| Feed a friend too much salt | GLUTAMATE |
| Figure on plane reportedly demolished fish | RECTANGLE |
| Give birth with anguished cry? | WHELP |
| Head of Finance sped about Swiss capital | FRANC |
| Hit piece of furniture, gathering dust | BASHED |
| Humility means transcending yourself, primarily | MODESTY |
| Larkin and colleagues tease liars in bar | LIBRARIANS |
| Leave gym with initially accelerated pulse | split-pea |
| Leaves hotel for club | COSH |
| Most unjust if nature’s destroyed | unfairest |
| Officer’s co-worker decorated in famous Venetian building at last | police dog |
| One shunning less stylish nursing sister in Oz? | down under |
| Organise AGM, or be subject to ban | EMBARGO |
| People, as ever, welcoming polite word | PLEASE |
| Perhaps Dorothy’s served up heavy food | STODGE |
| Perhaps hare after eccentric old maid? | card game |
| Policeman seizing stolen loincloth | DHOTI |
| Rebecca’s son oddly ignoring new status | ESAU |
| Run home with rogue | INCUR |
| Secret affair left couple holding a child | LIAISON |
| Sheepish male with drug, pursuing fine physique | FRAME |
| The setter writes to support worker, contrary sort | ANTITYPE |
| Turned to use backless cooker, perhaps explosive | APPLIED |
| Working girl has an ideal place to live | shangri-la |
| Wretched old bird | FLAMINGO |