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 |
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