The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26975
Clues | Answers |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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