The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1068 April 12 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ADVENT, Asia, EATS, ELLIPSE, HOURI, MORASS, TAPER, TOURS.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1068
| Clues |
Answers |
| A day given opening — now on calendar? |
ADVENT |
| Arrive shortly on flat territory and grumble |
COMPLAIN |
| Candle that a person gets hold of |
TAPER |
| Confused situation with nothing right in church service |
MORASS |
| Exclamation of annoyance when daughter meets rodent |
DRAT |
| Fall apart, having cold and noise in stomach? |
CRUMBLE |
| Fiddler supposedly with refusal to entertain the Queen |
NERO |
| Former lover having requests cries |
EXCLAIMS |
| Go through church under mass of stonework? |
PIERCE |
| Group of coots in Asia flying |
ASSOCIATION |
| Hospital official who could give Ron meal |
ALMONER |
| Loner in sports ground, learner needing exercise |
RECLUSE |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Most exciting preliminary contest involving fantastic side |
HEADIEST |
| Musical dramas are so fantastic when piano is included |
OPERAS |
| Odd creation modified and harmonised |
COORDINATED |
| Oily liquid ruining eco-store |
CREOSOTE |
| Pill, see, could be this shape |
ELLIPSE |
| Poet denied king food |
EATS |
| Shell of yellow hue on French sea |
ORMER |
| Sixty minutes with one beautiful female |
HOURI |
| Stylish little bird with tail hidden |
CHIC |
| Supports politicians giving accounts of what happened earlier |
backstories |
| Temporary pavilion so unstable, sheltering Rex |
PROVISIONAL |
| Trips made by drunkard rolling over outside old city |
TOURS |