The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic 26585 – December 2, 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| A bomb that’s sweet |
MINT |
| A one-liner? |
MONORAIL |
| Better prominence for jailer? |
CAPTOR |
| Card game of course? |
NEWMARKET |
| Chicks originally look to pull up worm |
CREEP |
| Cool criminal in capital of Sicily, Palermo |
IMPERSONAL |
| Delivery, piece that’s fragile? |
CHINAMAN |
| Designer starting out, couturier raised as an automaton |
DROID |
| Extra large fungus |
MOREL |
| First ten enough, say |
FOREXAMPLE |
| Fish around lake for dope? |
CLOD |
| Grotesquely veiny toads — an unpleasant picture |
VIDEONASTY |
| Herald procures new editor, finally |
PRECURSOR |
| Ignore item on a building site |
SKIP |
| Island featuring in marathons, hundreds! |
HONSHU |
| Killing beyond value |
PRICELESS |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Last seen of bottle, spare the hard stuff |
EBONY |
| Leader kind of tense having stolen passport, say? |
PRESIDENT |
| Mastiff’s heading after hollow stick — watch out for it! |
CAVECANEM |
| Model punched by rival over hot underwear |
PANTIHOSE |
| Old manuscripts deliver cut below penny in wages |
PAPYRI |
| One working on a device that’s a hit in film |
MACHINIST |
| Range is clear |
SWEEP |
| State has to avoid the ego of The Times? |
MISSOURI |
| Swimmer, a fanatic doing the backstroke? |
TUNA |
| The remote control initially thrown some distance |
HECTOMETRE |
| This line around ship secured by rope |
CROSSWORD |
| Tips for perfect miso soup side order: lush! |
TOPER |
| Tucked in to endless meat: we might |
POWER |
| Under a roof, complete in wrought iron |
INDOOR |
| Very short poems ending in sentiment, shameless |
IMMODEST |
| Woman like Bertha Rochester and a Fleming character |
MADAM |
