The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26974 Mar 1 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ARTERIES, PLAYWRIGHT, TROPICAL, TWISTER.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26974
| Clues |
Answers |
| Author’s predicament, having to keep wife in Scottish town |
PLAYWRIGHT |
| Check track, one going out for two miles east |
TRAMMEL |
| Commander keeping order and making folk laugh? |
COMIC |
| Country match, not the first outside city area |
GREECE |
| Degeneration of a younger wife? |
ATROPHY |
| Dull expert, speaker finally restricted |
DRAB |
| English difficulty about good person forced to leave? |
EMIGRE |
| Fighting group runs volunteers: favoured, assuredly |
for certain |
| Goat in the French church |
LECH |
| Hesitation about pretty covering is necessary |
REQUISITE |
| Love being in that place with head of maths — learning this? |
THEOREM |
| Material this person’s buried under hideaway |
DENIM |
| More unhappy maiden covered in dirt (introduction to rugby) |
GRIMMER |
| Oliver starts to experience regret as a crook? |
TWISTER |
| Pages kept in step, creating a dotty effect |
STIPPLE |
| Quick swim by jetty is less sensible |
DIPPIER |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Rejected, but shone once more? |
REBUFFED |
| Reversals of policy quietly being introduced to bring improvements |
UPTURNS |
| Rope perhaps in notorious place of execution? |
TOWER |
| Rotten tree woman stumbles over |
worm-eaten |
| Said to ‘esitate when meeting danger signal |
AVERRED |
| Society weighed down by additional customs |
MORES |
| Start to read crime novelist, one with discursive style? |
RAMBLER |
| Strip game bishop should abstain from |
RIDGE |
| Surveyor’s instrument repositioned in the hollowed out elm tree |
TELEMETER |
| That peculiar strain leading to sporting success |
hat trick |
| Use of many words, see, as with large community |
LOQUACITY |
| Very hot in April and Oct. unusually |
TROPICAL |
| Vessels in lake — skill’s needed to go round it |
ARTERIES |
| Winner not needing soldiers after end of battle to turn out |
EVICT |
| Woman feels spite, regularly put off |
ELSIE |
| You may get upset about cricket side, producing a lamentation |
ELEGY |