The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27643 April 20 2020 – Puzzle Answers
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27643 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| An enhancing drug for heavenly body | ASTEROID |
| Around x-ray, notice strange energy concentration | EXCITON |
| Attention to detail of former head about individual performance | EXACTNESS |
| Baseball player’s casual two-piece outfit? | SHORTSTOP |
| Butterfly with legs on top? The ultimate in ‘strange’ | inverted comma |
| Changing euro next, as foreign | EXTRANEOUS |
| Chap’s dropping masculine woman | ADA |
| Crew name tug crudely? | MANHANDLE |
| Driven to shaking after naughty child’s thoughtless | IMPROVIDENT |
| Film old relative during journey on horseback | Rio Grande |
| Fortuitous to get Oscar for a Western | OCCIDENTAL |
| Go round quickly and tack, going to south | SPIN |
| Gooey stuff coming from small tree | SLIME |
| Lack of harmony is very new in music for disco | DISSONANCE |
| Machine for turning cast figure on coin | CENTRIFUGE |
| Magistrate’s heartless act that is dishonest | DOGE |
| Member on board gives in, then oddly persists | BOWSPRIT |
| Organ is present from Cockney, we’re told | EAR |
| Police student about reported money owed | CADET |
| Rank suspicion about cheap stuff | STATUS |
| Reject some love tokens | VETO |
| Replenish beer that’s drunk? Disgraceful | REPREHENSIBLE |
| See eastern star rising — or planet | VENUS |
| Slander a duke during armistice | TRADUCE |
| Stick together stuff in cutting semi-precious stone | agglutinate |
| Swimmer wasting time over process of getting better | REHAB |
| Tons in arrears regularly — affording such jewellery? | TIARAS |
| Treat prince having swallowed ecstasy | HEAL |