The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic 26344 – February 25, 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| Agent — one originally boosting every Aussie holiday venue |
BONDIBEACH |
| Arthur’s wife, always welcomed by most of country |
GUINEVERE |
| Character abroad fencing in wild beast |
RHINO |
| Charge that is brought about medic at university? |
IMBUE |
| Cleaner endlessly serving parliament |
DAIL |
| Cloth cap suffering rat bite? |
BIRETTA |
| Composer I found in church with right lighting fixture |
CHANDELIER |
| Current political leader set up as mischief-maker |
IMP |
| Eccentric chap’s description of pre-Ordovician Wales? |
CAMBRIAN |
| Eg Hammerstein’s very large estate? |
OSCAR |
| Exercise nurse finally picking up rubbish, say, in ward |
PROTEGEE |
| Green hill accommodating third of prehistoric bones |
VERTEBRAE |
| Hairstyle primarily adhered to? The opposite |
AFRO |
| Heartless about arresting party workers? Shame! |
ABASHMENT |
| Hesitant exhortation starting race, therefore? |
ERGO |
| In greener resort, see person getting own back |
REVENGER |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Initially feeling overwhelmed, English girl ups and leaves |
FOLIAGE |
| Island group gathers cricket side — it’s pressing! |
IRONING |
| Lazy type’s song embracing several different keys |
LIEABED |
| Like some courts putting a case together |
ATRIAL |
| Loose cash bishop invested in beer: not always the same |
CHANGEABLE |
| Name a new type of slightly leavened bread |
NAN |
| Party in lead is Conservative |
DISCO |
| People who moan about trendy TV programmes? |
MINISERIES |
| Report of type searched for |
SOUGHT |
| Ride fast, going away at first — then head back |
GALLOP |
| Surplus the unstable may lose before fall |
BALANCE |
| The present writer’s aim to start with something like chicory |
ENDIVE |
| Tudor composer, and how he travelled from London to Lincoln? |
BYRD |
| Warbler taking breather under cape — or above |
GOLDCREST |
| What a druggy may smoke in front of this northern plant |
TREEFERN |