The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27949 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
A famous surgeon, one of the top people |
a-lister |
Artist on island framing publicity notice fast |
RAMADAN |
Carefree attitude a nice cousin cultivated |
INSOUCIANCE |
Cooked meats home help carved on lake |
CHARCUTERIE |
Copy card game, briefly |
CRIB |
Current cricketer’s runs welcomed by side |
SLIPSTREAM |
Daughter meeting Dickensian character’s skivvies |
DRUDGES |
Endlessly awkward old South American cowboy |
GAUCHO |
English Queen entertaining politician, or another monarch |
EMPEROR |
European broadcasting for a very long time |
EON |
Father acting, not son? It’s a façade |
FRONTAGE |
Gifted girl’s place at top? That’s open to question |
DISPUTABLE |
Greek character’s crumbling pen outside farm store |
EPSILON |
Handed over to host too much in dance |
GAVOTTE |
Large plant seabird observed crossing sandbank |
tree fern |
Clues |
Answers |
Mineral aggregate originally rife in outskirts of Odense |
ORE |
Model question |
POSER |
Part of church Liberal abandoned by mistake |
APSE |
Possibly Hamish’s second country dwelling |
SCOT |
Refuse to go downhill |
DECLINE |
Reportedly one departing for bar |
LEVER |
Ring lecturer to register unknown branch of dentistry |
ODONTOLOGY |
Senior citizen’s long-standing form of rest |
OLDSTER |
Showing amusement about wren’s initial chirping |
TWITTERING |
Spots in part of East London, as locals may pronounce it? |
ACNE |
Team assembled by the Spanish, no less |
ELEVEN |
Unaware travellers in Aden born in Ascot, surprisingly |
innocents abroad |
Vehicle protector is light, used around posh part of Canada |
vancouver island |
Work unit given backing by illustrious French city |
GRENOBLE |
Young bird stuck at first in trap on heather |
NESTLING |