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.
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 |