The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic 26336 – February 16, 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Solutions |
| Archdeacon following American in service for Lent? |
GIVEN |
| Bay with Gibraltar to the west’s showing up |
BIGHT |
| CCTV got Italian’s corrupt electoral practice |
TACTICALVOTING |
| Charges informally for crossing thoroughfare |
COSTS |
| Cheers on champion returning for award |
BAFTA |
| Cites novel that’s understood by one in vain |
EGOTISTIC |
| City bank may forgo profit also, ultimately |
KYOTO |
| Clocked high speed after ascent finished off |
NOTICED |
| Cockney was hovering, about to strike punch, cutting loose |
UNHITCHING |
| Cotton on large rings forming shelter |
TWIGLOO |
| Head of group, in base, struggles the most with it? |
GROOVIEST |
| Insects like cake? He loves carrots |
BUGSBUNNY |
| Jabber, meeting British spies, making conjecture |
HYPOTHESIS |
| Junk adoptable as pleasure craft |
PEDALBOAT |
| Kind, frail, English Sikh bent down a lot |
DRINKLIKEAFISH |
| Clues |
Solutions |
| Let’s honour newspaper’s capital coverage? Nothing more |
HATSOFFTO |
| Line of cars picked up TV signal |
AUTOCUE |
| Miserable old boy’s going round not giving out perfume |
ODOURLESS |
| Odd articles from old trains and one taxi drivers’ association |
BRICABRAC |
| Rather slow tailless bird initially hovering within reach |
LARGHETTO |
| Religious devotions recalled well in mind of German |
NOVENAS |
| Secure nick |
NOTCH |
| Settled for keeping silent at first as most celebrated? |
ALIST |
| Sharp movement of rabbit straddling pole |
YANK |
| Stands by nothing that’s written in New Yorkers’ volumes? |
LOITERS |
| States time for practice |
USAGE |
| The ale abandoned quietly? |
HEELTAP |
| Time machine era stopping sooner or later |
TARDIER |
| With facility that’s extra small inside incorporating doctor’s official residence |
EMBASSY |
| Wooden bar one puts up then another jumps? |
BAIL |