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 |