The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28057 August 16 2021 Crossword Answer
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| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28057 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| African country raising river spirit | NIGERIA |
| Closeness of rugby forward, one abandoning sin | PROPINQUITY |
| Die crossing source of Irish river, blooming thing! | PASSIONFLOWER |
| Doubting Scotsman, perhaps, following female medical expert | DIAGNOSTICIAN |
| Duck, possibly, served inside | BIRD |
| Failing old firm in security almost unknown | DEFICIENCY |
| Family position offering cash with it, keeping you and me | cousinship |
| Fashionable woman seen with duke? Quite so | INDEED |
| Former Labour leader dipping into overdraft | OLD |
| General’s promise to fence in lake with fish | WORLDWIDE |
| Island politician primarily investigating old African warriors | IMPI |
| Musician’s assistant’s gripping novel | page-turner |
| Nice poet involved with tax? That’s the assumption | EXPECTATION |
| Note about husband supporting US city club | LATHI |
| One getting rid of retired male model | DISPOSER |
| Part of joint music group going north | TENON |
| Popular lecturer on French art originally in Asian country | INDONESIA |
| Possibly Jacob’s novel record | SHEEP |
| Shady type important people recalled | SPIV |
| Sick Damascene, say, beheaded like some ancient countrymen | ILLYRIAN |
| Sound made by small seal or young 17 | CYGNET |
| Spiky plant found in country estates | RYE |
| Stop media representation — it’s laid on thick | impastoed |
| Struggles to capture large groups of birds in the air | FLIGHTS |
| Teacher turned up, greeting Hindu sage | RISHI |
| Typical reforms suppressed by Brussels oil producers | EUCALYPTI |
| Waver like an ass, swapping new for very old moggy | EQUIVOCATE |
| Work in church, wearing this? | COPE |