The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic 26300 – January 5, 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Solutions |
| A wedge brought back to secure resting place for gun |
BIGBERTHA |
| Act ruthlessly, keeping bird numbers down? |
TAKENOPRISONERS |
| African shelter built on radioactive element |
HUTU |
| As one saved from flood, daughter being kept ignorant |
INTHEDARK |
| Bird in building not hard to find by lake |
OUSEL |
| Cat maybe with need to get hold of piece of material |
PLACKET |
| Deity saying nothing, almost useless |
SILENUS |
| Escaped ducks found in London school |
LOOSE |
| Frolic returning to entertain a village |
KRAAL |
| Having a liking for character one singer shows |
PARTIALTO |
| Holiday island has one brief party coming up |
BALI |
| Information about artistic style |
GENRE |
| It could make treading tricky? |
GRADIENT |
| Journalist, one young man who somehow set the world alight |
EDISON |
| Most offensive incident on street started by former pupil |
OBSCENEST |
| Clues |
Solutions |
| Name of poet using some bawdy language |
DYLAN |
| Narrative one acted out |
ANECDOTE |
| Not for the first time assesses comments |
REMARKS |
| Old scoundrel leading men, one on the podium? |
ORATOR |
| One may have crumbled in game — defeat is reported |
CONKER |
| One unknown number placed in bag — even or odd number? |
NINETEEN |
| Room like a square-sided box, by the sound of it |
CUBICLE |
| Sex symbol periodical love recalled |
LINGAM |
| Ship carrying nob who may appear to be bad-tempered? |
SNAPPERS |
| Small city manifesting the foreign spirit |
ELGIN |
| The old man with the twitching is to be pitied |
PATHETIC |
| The soldiers must come to the front as a consequence |
THEREFORE |
| Unusual sight of piano in place for the present |
GIFTSHOP |
| What ship’s captain may do to become front-line performer |
HEADLINER |
| Wobbly chap short of power has to get well, escape terrible death |
CHEATTHEGALLOWS |