The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1097 May 23 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ACCOMPANY, BLOCKHEAD, BLOOM, FALCONRY, KLM, MULTITASK, WIDOWED.
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The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1097
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| A lot of straw perhaps making one unhappy | BALEFUL |
| Bird trapped by enormous elephant | OUSEL |
| Consent of female to fall asleep | nod off |
| Crazy last letter by no one in particular | ZANY |
| Ecstatic girl’s embracing you | JOYOUS |
| English copper coin of old | ECU |
| Equally divides accommodation | QUARTERS |
| Fanatic taking centrepiece from gazebo often | ZEALOT |
| Get rid of E London journalists for speaking out | AXE |
| Girl getting nothing back, sorry for herself? | MAUDLIN |
| Go with a f-firm? | ACCOMPANY |
| If not in the shade, removing top | UNLESS |
| Left in period of prosperity to flourish | BLOOM |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Money from swindle — say nothing! | DOSH |
| Most pleasant scent I sprayed | NICEST |
| One’s a fool to obstruct chief | BLOCKHEAD |
| Pathway regularly chosen causing surprised reaction? | AHA |
| Pop this way and that | DAD |
| Scent a person wandering around picked up? | AROMA |
| Shift last of grime by pad that’s available in private hospital | pay bed |
| Shout loudly accusing Mrs Peacock? | cry blue murder |
| Split stick | CLEAVE |
| Suit at KLM ordered to do several things at once | MULTITASK |
| Training birds of prey, disturbing a cornfly | FALCONRY |
| Unknown poem Lowry perhaps sings | YODELS |
| Wife I had been in debt to having lost her? | WIDOWED |