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 |
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