The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27514 November 21 2019
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ARETE, LOLITA, MALAWIAN, Moscow.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27514 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A couple of lines in dreadful poem | BALLAD |
| A rule I instilled in fellow African | MALAWIAN |
| Agree artist makes a fabulous creation | CHIMERA |
| Almost indisposed to show up, coldly received | UNWELCOME |
| Argument from Conservative whip | CLASH |
| Be overambitious, sacking Romeo from production of tragedies | get ideas |
| Classic of the Chinese to install bible for church in Washington | IRVING |
| Consuming mineral, I love being hostile | INIMICAL |
| Engaged by English paper, I turned up | in use |
| Facade awkwardly flat, no rustication initially in it | FRONTAL |
| Finally appear with one dropping round security equipment | SHREDDER |
| Finally arriving in Stone, a Midlands town | RUGBY |
| Full of energy, social worker makes progress at work | CAREER |
| In parliament, stand up to remove one waving a trumpet | DAFFODIL |
| Integrated student drinking beers at clubs | COALESCED |
| Intolerance in art-house, head finding a new position | ALLERGY |
| Model of Parthenon, say, consuming a ton | TEMPLATE |
| Not burning to be incorporated into new text | EXTINCT |
| One in the sea grabbed by crazy fool | MISLEAD |
| Perhaps foundation of the universe cracked by alien | COSMETIC |
| Plan to plunge Indian city into dark | DIAGRAM |
| Refuse to kill American, a Liberal | OFFAL |
| Remarkably unfailing growth that is easy to secure | low-hanging fruit |
| The retreat from Moscow? | DACHA |
| The undoubted leader? | definite article |
| Tricky part of climb, perhaps, needing some spare tents | ARETE |
| Vainly seek suit for Londoner | WHISTLE |
| Very funny appeal by a young girl booked | LOLITA |
| Wouldn’t agree to be given another meal without our people | REFUSED |
| Your band playing as a four, sometimes two more | BOUNDARY |