The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1608 May 7 2020 Puzzle Answers
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1608 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Attractive man’s bit of jewellery | STUD |
| Colour of metal tiger’s head | TINT |
| Consequences of one initially minor agreement | IMPACT |
| Cut legs when retreating | SNIP |
| Fall behind lass heading north | LAG |
| Lager and cider: you’ll need an antidote for it! | SNAKEBITE |
| Leave car electrician has failed to start | PARK |
| Modernised a dud pet, somehow | UPDATED |
| Observe affirmative response, we hear | EYE |
| Overturn unexpected result | UPSET |
| Prevent a former soldier keeping rifle, at first | AVERT |
| Psychological strategy: look out for wild animals | mind game |
| Redesign secure HQ where the PM stays sometimes | CHEQUERS |
| Retain possession of stronghold | KEEP |
| Rinse strange sticky substance | RESIN |
| Rodent disease contained by artificial intelligence | AGOUTI |
| Roman god: he’s cruel, unfortunately | HERCULES |
| Seating broken by second very large lady | GIANTESS |
| Shakespeare, perhaps, is forbidden on the radio | BARD |
| Smoothing the end of the day | EVENING |
| Survived being confined, losing oxygen | COPED |
| The current decade represented in tweets | TWENTIES |
| Try out underground piece of laboratory apparatus | test tube |
| When a car refuels, containers fall over | pit stop |
| Where the litigious will see you after a good battle | AGINCOURT |
| Wow, delightful ornamental feature | CORNICE |