| The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1212 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A little peach, occasionally sweet | CHOC |
| A royal primarily in woven satin, Russian empress | TSARINA |
| Ancient city, portion in South Africa | SPARTA |
| Bloomer getting daughter into other dodgy card game | red-hot poker |
| Bold leader in historic Scottish city | PERTH |
| Card carrying first of nine spots | ACNE |
| Catch tail-enders in Australian side, distraught | NET |
| Changing, triangle shatters | ALTERING |
| Cook retains right sieve | STRAINER |
| Darkness close, end of daylight | NIGHT |
| God a degree above king and queen! | MAKER |
| Letters stolen by bitter evangelist | APOSTLE |
| Loathing crimson fez, perhaps? | HATRED |
| Long twelve months before end of recession | YEARN |
| Motorbike attachment that’s hurried, is the wrong way up | SIDECAR |
| Odd way to introduce series | STRANGE |
| Person throwing jug | PITCHER |
| Road hazard, this half visible in Dorset town | POTHOLE |
| Search briefly for toilet | LOO |
| Stage player originally cast to appear in upcoming schedule | ACTOR |
| Still owed? Wonderful! | OUTSTANDING |
| The last reshuffles in secrecy | STEALTH |
| Versus a profit, loss finally beginning to tell | AGAINST |
| Wrong, a girl | AMISS |
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