The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1306 March 12 2019
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: CELIA, FUTILITY, HALF, SURFACE.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1306 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A Russian fighter, old friend | AMIGO |
| A session of football, Henry against Alfred | HALF |
| Alas, poetry set him off | mores the pity |
| All the letters, or not quite two? | ALPHABET |
| Bob up in wave foam __ fantastic! | SURFACE |
| Chance to work at ice-cold inn | COINCIDENTAL |
| Cooperate to act and dance | play ball |
| Disadvantage of ward? | DRAWBACK |
| Dog runs away from miner | COLLIE |
| Duck or chicken perhaps following wise bird | FOWL |
| Forgotten, so impossible to cancel | beyond recall |
| Gold transaction a severe test | ORDEAL |
| Message that’s short and sentimentally sweet | TWEE |
| Modest about home gleaming | SHINY |
| Money that keeps value: coins rather than notes? | hard currency |
| Northern home, one almost dark | IGLOO |
| Paul for one has job at length in A&E | APOSTLE |
| Reading this is a touching experience | BRAILLE |
| Renown from remarkable result | LUSTRE |
| Ruin course of meal | DISH |
| Spies have trapped extremely emotional girl | CELIA |
| Take care, as Good King Wenceslas did? | look out |
| Under most favourable circumstances, second grade in an exam | at best |
| Uselessness of water company for one after onset of freeze | FUTILITY |