The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1050
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| A grain seed | ACORN |
| Beer for hospital employee | PORTER |
| Brilliant writer put at the top | superscribe |
| Churchgoer in French capital dealt heroin | PARISHIONER |
| Large, obese all round: the result of a blow-out? | FLAT |
| Last resort to put up the money for station | BACKSTOP |
| Mess tart about in bed | MATTRESS |
| New European friend’s country | NEPAL |
| Obscure energy cuts end in catastrophe | ECLIPSE |
| Policeman has hours in helicopter | CHOPPER |
| Queen Richelieu has to make wealthy | ENRICH |
| Reference arranged at St Emilion | TESTIMONIAL |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Rise in endowment interrupted by decease | GRADIENT |
| Rural establishment a long way off motorway | FARM |
| Small company with work that’s exclusive | SCOOP |
| Small military camp is not in position | OUTPOST |
| Still a number going topless | EVEN |
| Swell certainly to consume gallons | SURGE |
| Symbol kept shut up, left in the care of wizard | PENTACLE |
| Tear after mongrel that’s in fashion | CURRENT |
| Think Dennis gets upset, being this, perhaps | thin-skinned |
| Times keeping us hard at work | BUSY |
| Valuable property like stations or plants | ASSETS |
| Woodwind player, old boy is surrounded by books | OBOIST |
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