The Telegraph – Cryptic – Feb 4 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues | Solutions |
|---|---|
| … matches entirely in draws | TALLIES |
| Church increased time being consumed to baptise | CHRISTEN |
| Crazy Lear isn’t showing what’s inside | ENTRAILS |
| Dog beginning to eat kipper | CURE |
| Drink for everybody, including company, on house | ALCOHOL |
| Eat dinner with time unusually vague | INDETERMINATE |
| Eloquence over Right by Cameron perhaps | ORATORY |
| Endlessly care for faithful pet | TREASURE |
| Fellow criminal without a blemish | FLAWLESS |
| Flower I caught in season | ERICA |
| Go on spilling secrets, invading privacy initially | GOSSIP |
| Great performance against clubs … | GIGANTIC |
| Heartless roughneck accepted by female labourer | WORKMAN |
| Hip received small metal bars | INGOTS |
| Informal contracted language in say, ‘gutted’ | SLANGY |
| Clues | Solutions |
|---|---|
| More natural expression of pleasure, embracing sweetheart | PURER |
| Performance of pantomime ends in speech | OPERATION |
| Red lips involved in cheating | CRIMSON |
| Spike troublemaker’s drink | IMPALE |
| Spreading unction’s aim, so unctuous | SANCTIMONIOUS |
| Stewardesses, sophisticated, about turned mad | POSSESSED |
| Sun exploit employing birds results in excited anticipation | SUSPENSE |
| Tea’s found in neat container to buy | PURCHASE |
| Time runs out in end | TERMINUS |
| Tory leader’s hard disagreement on economy | THRIFT |
| Tree trunk protecting new pine | LONG |
| Understanding follows the compiler’s meaning | IMPACT |
| Whack! Old man returning strikes with disgust | APPALS |
| Where holy man gets appropriate covering | VESTRY |
| Wicked one’s carrying dodgy opium | IMPIOUS |