The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1261 January 8 2019
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: DREAM, HAYWIRE, New York, SHYLOCK.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1261 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| American newspaper: its key men row, unfortunately | new york times |
| Arrive following published result | OUTCOME |
| Bishop, perhaps, in newspaper article | PIECE |
| Chinese food in new bags | NOODLES |
| Everyone in extremely rowdy mass meeting | RALLY |
| Fantasy: short play about end of universe | DREAM |
| Fellow eating very soft fish | GUPPY |
| Fictional detective overlooking right tree | MAPLE |
| Fruit, old, turning bad | OLIVE |
| In unbending section of racecourse | home straight |
| Inuit’s initial despondency missing last house | IGLOO |
| London borough keeps hosting Shakespeare play | tower hamlets |
| Look round quiet church giving sermon | SPEECH |
| Low wall: section breached by clumsy type | PARAPET |
| Ordinary seaman can during fundraising event | RATING |
| Rest unhappy supporting cock-and-bull story | lie down |
| Silly way to split rent? Crazy | HAYWIRE |
| Sturdy cattle, last in valley | STOCKY |
| Tricky question taken from quite a series | TEASER |
| Usurer in jam after retiring | SHYLOCK |
| Very nervy description of Blondin’s tightrope? | highly strung |
| What Macmillan had? Nasty ordeal with head of military | EARLDOM |
| What may go round and round, and up and down? | ROTOR |
| Who heading off after count makes sporting cry? | tally-ho |