The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1319 March 29 2019
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ABLAZE, AFTERS, US, VIGILANTE.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1319 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A short jacket, brightly coloured? | ABLAZE |
| Add this to get fourteen office hours? | nine-to-five |
| Colleges attended by former partner — coed? | UNISEX |
| Dark, headless horseman | NIGHT |
| Description of tiny particle from potato, microscopic | ATOMIC |
| Direct ambition | AIM |
| Director general in new role as tenant | LODGER |
| Draw stomach back | TUG |
| Farmworker who drives poor hens mad, crossing river | HERDSMAN |
| Feed friend initially, then stranger | FODDER |
| Ideal person in gallery present | gods gift |
| Kid brewed drinks and coffee, finally | TEASE |
| Lift a car number plate, we hear, that’s finely balanced | razor edge |
| Magistrates and journalists getting form of exercise | bench press |
| Neil getting up around one — having had this? | lie-in |
| One following US rock band is at death’s door | in extremis |
| One no longer working on Hebridean island | RETIREE |
| Pudding that’s prepared faster | AFTERS |
| Short rest not awfully peaceful at first | NAP |
| Speaker taking to social media? | TWEETER |
| TV announcer answered, er, awkwardly | news-reader |
| Unofficial cop versus one GI with large stake | VIGILANTE |
| Visibly embarrassed, that is, after recalling duck | EIDER |
| Women’s Institute good making syrup | WIG |