The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1197 October 10 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: Fleet Street, OFFBEAT, REARRANGEMENT, United Nations.
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Clues | Answers |
A top mark | ALPHA |
Admiral’s daughter pursued by libertine | DRAKE |
Against former old Italian food | ANTIPASTO |
At first, bearings are seized tightly enough. Pour oil on | BASTE |
Brute grabbing queen’s bosom | BREAST |
Crowd in Fleet Street? | PRESS |
Cruel person beheaded river creature | OTTER |
Fear losing fine musical ability | EAR |
Former partner has to pretend with lady, heartless indeed | EXACTLY |
Is most of gift in seedy venue related to handouts? | distributive |
Managed to amuse oneself cutting board that’s not fixed | TRANSPORTABLE |
Only just defeat star seed | PIP |
Part of Burbank city | URBAN |
Playing piece has all the actors leave gutted | CASTLE |
Raise stove intended, we hear, for a new layout | REARRANGEMENT |
Son got out of enormous bath | VAT |
Southern European story with a moral that might be unconnected | SEPARABLE |
Strange being away from work with strike | OFFBEAT |
Strange story about the end of expensive seafood | OYSTER |
Trying to prevent train sets being laid out wrongly | RESISTANT |
United Nations is working in simultaneous action | UNISON |
Unruly old boy upset superstore | OBSTREPEROUS |
Untruth I found in key book | FIB |
Wild eglantine is far from lovely | INELEGANT |