The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic 26588 – December 6, 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| A lot of criticism about a source of television interference |
STATIC |
| A positive outcome, losing one’s beard |
AWN |
| Alpine sun transformed narrow piece of land |
PENINSULA |
| America adopting universal line regarding customs? |
USUAL |
| Assign full set of religious texts? |
ALLOT |
| Bananas: food without energy? That’s a nuisance |
HANDFUL |
| Cordiality on leaving some time after conflict |
WARMTH |
| Current navigational device not accommodating first polar direction |
EXTANT |
| Fairly dim idiot concealing bad cut |
TWILIT |
| Hazard visitors will move tail-ender forward before one end to game |
GUESSTIMATE |
| Hot team in card game making cut |
HEW |
| Hotel regularly accommodating a divine |
HEAVENLY |
| Iron anklet finally brought in for one’s security |
SAFETY |
| Kidnapping ending in distress, of course |
SNATCH |
| Live to support son — disregarding daughter? |
SEXIST |
| Maybe iodine isn’t found in variety of sapphire |
PERHAPS |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Metal part of fork trimmed |
TIN |
| Monitor arranged play-pens |
SPYPLANE |
| Ostentatious sob recalled as something generating red eyes? |
FLASHBULB |
| Part of team kit not entirely given makeover in swindle |
SHORTCHANGE |
| Peak support involving husband and lots of characters |
ALPHABET |
| Politician upset writer embraced by a BBC chief, improvising |
ADLIBBING |
| Prohibition sees cop retiring |
BAN |
| Regret monarch’s being besieged by heads of Merchant Navy |
MOURN |
| Rescue curtailed: a European country losing man in barbarous attack? |
SAVAGERY |
| Show of embarrassment, seeing how poor people live? |
HANDTOMOUTH |
| Sports body going to college in London? Not so |
FALSE |
| Suggest true love doesn’t run smooth around November |
VOLUNTEER |
| Time to interrupt that chap (an assassin) |
HITMAN |
| Top setter’s hard attitude with posh lass |
HAIRGEL |
| Trashed male Puritan, one offering vision of heaven |
PLANETARIUM |
| Understanding blame attached to harbour |
RAPPORT |
