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 |