The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic 26552 – October 25, 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| A Welsh girl or Chinese? |
ASIAN |
| Am about to monitor missing answer |
GONNA |
| Arrive on time in old plane |
COMET |
| Be defeated in competition and snap? |
CLOSEUP |
| Big beasts latest to broadcast |
GNUS |
| Brings takeaway home, having to work hard |
GETSTUCKIN |
| Brother’s in control: keep away |
REFRAIN |
| Caught hiding in sand? I never learn |
DUNCE |
| Coarse fabric is rum stuff |
GROGRAM |
| Conservatives still on the up, keeping separate |
TEAPARTY |
| Entering fine games field always brings state of excitement |
FEVERPITCH |
| Follower of philosopher, but with haziness |
THOMIST |
| Gas attack announced, and taking place |
RADON |
| Happier to arrange to install grand inscription |
EPIGRAPH |
| Hen in brief losing weight |
LAYER |
| In moving cart, big cat, no way a queen |
CLEOPATRA |
| Clues |
Answers |
| In socks that are rinsed? |
HOSED |
| Little girl’s back and stomach on front, swollen |
TUMID |
| Miss very keen on voices |
AIRSHOT |
| Mostly quiet and not up to it, I have a place on the board |
STILTON |
| Not European, yet poet comes round at intervals |
BYTURNS |
| One needled drunk, pierced with cold quill |
SCOTSPINE |
| One Robert that is sort of being nice to start with |
SCHUMANN |
| Orgiastic and noisy, I must be drunk |
DIONYSIAN |
| Part of speech some teenager understands |
GERUND |
| Participant in French/English wedding has clearance |
LEGROOM |
| Pope half suitable for welfare |
BENEFIT |
| Safely store sulphur beside plant, cropped |
SHEATHE |
| Seaweed’s energy expended by a motor-home on a run |
AGARAGAR |
| Set up a capital — or two states |
RIGA |
| Silent, not one to interrupt what joiner does: woodwork |
MARQUETRY |
| Tomboy’s Orkney retreat |
HOYDEN |
