The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27657 May 6 2020 Puzzle Answers
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27657 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| 5 dads drink | pass up |
| A ship, eg, circles different parts of our canals | OESOPHAGI |
| Almost the perfect place for a fling | HEAVE |
| Appropriate header concealed from user adopting online search? | SEQUESTER |
| Auntie half-heartedly backed naval officer making music | BEBOP |
| Band at funeral threw a wobbly | WREATH |
| Compounds charged in red light district? | TARTRATES |
| Count, maybe low, swollen by one | BASIE |
| Crossword setter, maybe, having to receive gold medal | WORDSMITH |
| Demanding second book | HARDBACK |
| Drawing, a large Lowry, perhaps Irish remarkably | all square |
| Fish from can to cook, recently gutted | john dory |
| Imposing spell of tyranny after cutbacks | LOFTY |
| Indoors, surprisingly, could be damper | SORDINO |
| Item of property as result of gossip changing hands | CHATTEL |
| Leave sometime, not fast | EXEAT |
| Occasions for choosing before once between judge and new attorney | REFERENDA |
| Particles of dry grass crossing a river beneath mountain | alpha ray |
| Personnel one has included in Solicitor at Law’s contract | SHRIVEL |
| Pieces, all the same length, needed for decongestant | MENTHOL |
| Potentially miss appeal appearing in paper | SUSAN |
| Practise children’s game with energy and fondness | DOTAGE |
| Purchaser’s place to keep stock of audition | BUYER |
| Record hosts fail to keep to | CLOSED |
| Refrain from having key cut | ESCHEW |
| Sailors at ball drink up | ABSORB |
| Step from carriage on way through town | STAIR |
| Still a sort of fat found in fried bread | HUSHPUPPY |
| The rest of the players could make them fail | half-time |
| To live without you close for so long! | bye-bye |
| Try present with one label round | give it a go |
| Twice a year, wife brings fruit | PAWPAW |