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 |