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 |