| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28287 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A game is set up, oddly, for a day in church | SEPTUAGESIMA |
| Accepting new power, not a single craftsman is unbiased | non-partisan |
| Acclaim register, one used endlessly by Brussels | EULOGISE |
| Administered church, inspiring priest’s trust | RELIANCE |
| Benefactors having no right to infiltrate parties | DONORS |
| Capital Henry invested in high-quality food shop | DELHI |
| Cook disturbed by a brawl | FRAY |
| Cut out part of support covering financial centre | RESECT |
| Extremely significant widespread conflict | STRIFE |
| Furore over books in part of Belfast | STORMONT |
| Improving technique increases murder rate | upskilling |
| Ineffectual American drug? Not so | USELESS |
| Intimidate son interrupting discussion in plant | cow parsley |
| Like a style of painting some revel in early | LINEAR |
| Lock up woman concerned with protecting elected member | IMPRISON |
| More recent article identifies site of Roman basilica | LATERAN |
| Newspaper’s revolutionary work plugged by Times leader | red-top |
| Off-the-cuff claim to be on time at university | IMPROMPTU |
| Person singing in new boat | NARK |
| River horse, or cow, by the sound of it | RHONE |
| Scandinavian food tucked into by a knight on board | DANISH |
| Set cricket side up | GEL |
| Singing and shouting odds regularly inside | YODELLING |
| Student of life misused Bitcoins site | bioscientist |
| Surpass old-fashioned tourists finally on excursion | OUTSTRIP |
| Tedious book lying around Irish quarters | TIRESOME |
| This standard giving rise to censure | PAR |
| Unusually tiny, listens with determination | INSISTENTLY |