The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1163 August 23 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: APOSTLES, BESTRIDE, OAP, PATIENCE, PLUG, REBUT, SPOKE, SUITE.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1163 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A job with the French supporters | APOSTLES |
| After small prod, talked | SPOKE |
| Avoid workers in winter clothing | ski pants |
| Callas excited a famous opera house | la scala |
| Czech city showing ‘Born Free’ | BRNO |
| Deny criminal brute | REBUT |
| Doing wrong to claim article is jewellery? | EARRING |
| Dreary poet rejected | DRAB |
| Examine some plain spectacles | INSPECT |
| Fail to answer question but succeed in exam! | PASS |
| Game __ I’ve got it! | BINGO |
| Greeting an OAP roughly, a youngster may be showing it | generation gap |
| Heard people waiting in A&E? They may need this | PATIENCE |
| Keeping a straight face, passed on slam | DEADPAN |
| Lasts longer than unfashionable ladies’ underwear | OUTSTAYS |
| Lord’s partnership not difficult __ relax! | stand easy |
| Mock professional clown heartlessly | JEER |
| Replace tap fitting | APT |
| Set of rooms, charming sounding | SUITE |
| Soldier on for each grave | PERSEVERE |
| Stop a promotion | PLUG |
| We’re ages organising arrangement of drains | SEWERAGE |
| What champion jockey gets to straddle | BESTRIDE |
| What’s close to bust, English or Scottish bank? | BRAE |
| When opener’s lost, shout for pointed tool | AWL |