The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic 26299 – January 4, 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Solutions |
| A bad name for earthy particles mixed with water? |
MUD |
| After end of dinner, I love a port |
RIO |
| Air of this writer accepting rise in benefit? |
MELODY |
| Amusing chap reportedly supplying mushrooms and the like |
FUNGI |
| Angler beginning to fill one kind of tank |
FISHERMAN |
| At Bethnal Green, go underground and carp |
IDE |
| Ban doctor interrupting organ work? |
EMBARGO |
| Bone found in Indian city? |
PATELLA |
| Depth measurer that’s safer under City house? |
ECHOSOUNDER |
| Emperor who’s down over Christmas rising |
NAPOLEON |
| English composer’s seen around principal part of fortifications |
BEACHHEAD |
| Explosive device — what mine host might call a failure? |
TIMEBOMB |
| Gap in continuity true men grin about |
INTERREGNUM |
| Given illumination, landed with provisions around lake |
FLOODLIT |
| Haughty fellow rings to be admitted |
ALOOF |
| Hoof extremely useful in a wildebeest when climbing |
UNGULA |
| Clues |
Solutions |
| Ill-educated youth leader lacking preparedness |
UNREADY |
| Land with husky, say, and animal for riding |
SADDLEHORSE |
| Left Arran sadly, like close relatives |
FRATERNAL |
| Month cook loses head, eating beef regularly |
OCTOBER |
| Odd time to bury minute items of jumble |
RUMMAGE |
| One in stagnation, with no tips on where to find fuel? |
OILDRUM |
| Poisonous type exhausted crossing eastern river |
SERPENT |
| Roman family name of Swiss financier involved in scam |
COGNOMEN |
| Routed all over the place, following this? |
DETOUR |
| Rubbish put back thus in trunk |
TORSO |
| Sea creature prince smuggled back west initially |
NARWHAL |
| Shy — not like us when given papers for Queen |
DIFFIDENT |
| Small island with a special appeal |
AIT |
| Spirit of nature in lines framed by old man |
DRYAD |
| Suspicion surrounding most of European Right’s protest |
Hungermarch |
| Watchman with energy replacing a form of fuel |
PETROL |