The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26975 Mar 2 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ERMINE, LOVAGE, MISUSE, TALENT.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26975
Clues |
Answers |
Africans, a Welshman, and some Scots? |
ivorians |
Article female related unaltered |
as is |
Attack pacifist leading appeal for peace |
COSH |
Benefit that people must carry over |
MAIDEN |
Bloomer as drug agent sends out missing drug |
NARCISSUS |
Daughter, passionate, celebrated nude |
DAVID |
Declined to pot, for example, first and second reds |
LEFTISTS |
Desperate option many tars ponder ultimately? |
any port in a storm |
Even pieces of carpet I lay so as to fit |
APTLY |
Fall for American, not half: love his car! |
AUTO |
Finally blow into warm club providing cosy environment |
WOMB |
Fish from tin, roughly prepared sandwiches |
red snapper |
Fur coat owner’s embarrassed admission? |
ERMINE |
Have a go at someone’s short cut |
SNIP |
He’d put out east from the Caymans, somehow? |
YACHTSMAN |
Clues |
Answers |
Lockkeeper to become a leading musician? |
HEADBAND |
Noisy pigeon set about quiet old Hollywood actor |
COOPER |
Nothing, within reason, eclipsing first of these, apparently |
OSTENSIBLY |
Old peasant to rear woodland creature |
HIND |
One expecting the right to wear second medal |
mother-to-be |
Opposed to golf, on balance, being arranged again |
restaging |
Pack up stuff for temporary abode |
crash pad |
Promise fair puzzle |
word-square |
Ran slowly in what’s deceptive light |
TRICKLED |
Refusal to lift tax for working |
on duty |
Starter of duck becoming duck and egg |
OVOID |
Stuff essential for giving or getting |
GORGE |
They need walk-on parts for their sketches |
pavement artists |
This could be M’s part? Yes |
SPYMASTER |
Time to stop a curiously old-fashioned etching technique |
AQUATINT |
The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1039
Clues |
Answers |
Adore getting hold of a good herb |
LOVAGE |
Army officers moved quickly leaving retail outlet |
general store |
At sea in a launch |
AFLOAT |
Be absorbed in thought about island’s waste |
MISUSE |
Beams, having last of bread-and-butter pudding |
RAFTERS |
Character left in support |
FLAVOUR |
Cold and unemotional type in charge, diver recalled |
ICEBERG |
Complete circuit, or segment? |
ORBIT |
Courage of owner finally entering flat that’s been turned over |
NERVE |
Determined to attack |
set upon |
Gift: story together with religious books |
TALENT |
Grass box breaking toe badly |
ESPARTO |
Clues |
Answers |
How farmer let off weapon |
flame-thrower |
Irish being buried in vault abroad is unreal |
VIRTUAL |
Money drawn in by rake, as standard procedure |
ROUTINE |
Powerful drug: one taken with expression of doubt after operation |
OPIUM |
Prognosis Meg put about, being spreader of rumours |
GOSSIPMONGER |
Ringleader taking in very English sleuth |
INVESTIGATOR |
Rotter’s rotten gag about a deb coming out |
a bad egg |
Shot below joint |
ELBOW |
Sound coming from piano is extraordinary |
NOISE |
Strong second row |
STIFF |
Trunk and tangled roots |
TORSO |
Unacceptable idea I dismissed |
not on |