The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic 26551 – October 24, 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| Act in which to see pest put down |
Derated |
| Adoring fans of ancient king |
GORDIAN |
| Chief praying effusively and moralising in sermon |
PREACHIFYING |
| Coffee in street obtained by worker |
INSTANT |
| Court procedure subsequently holding one right back |
RETRIAL |
| Cutie nods naughtily in this act maybe |
SEDUCTION |
| Drunken refrains here? One clears an obnoxious atmosphere |
AIRFRESHENER |
| Endlessly sick, I had cared about sugar |
DISACCHARIDE |
| Famous cricketer: he passed on tip for boy in High School |
HOBBS |
| Fury, perhaps, of archdeacon in time meeting resistance |
AVENGER |
| Given a non-U treatment? |
AMERICANISED |
| Half a decade of brilliance cut short with little hesitation |
LUSTRUM |
| Hesitant after written account replaces one article with another |
DITHERY |
| Member of parliament is older, one being absent for a time |
SENATOR |
| Clues |
Answers |
| My pleasant artistic moulding |
CORNICE |
| Narratives to be read both ways |
SAGAS |
| Note bed cast outside home after complete upset |
TONIC |
| Old king on journey engaging good poet |
COLERIDGE |
| Old kingdom has sailor returning with very short song |
BAVARIA |
| One collecting hard stones along the shore |
SHINGLE |
| One heading off into tedious work grimaced |
GRINNED |
| One relatively short distance seen absurdly as huge |
IMMENSE |
| One’s icy and more lacking in expression when speaking |
GLACIER |
| Out of jail, one prisoner being embraced and finely bedecked with gold? |
FILAGREED |
| Part of a letter from one who has already reached the heights? |
DESCENDER |
| Quiet little devils consuming last of our seafood |
SHRIMPS |
| Regarding place for sporting contests as generator of income |
REVENUE |
| See expression of surprise after sending back games expert |
HOYLE |
