The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28174 December 30 2021 Crossword Solution
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28174
Clues | Answers |
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A riddle with no conclusion? Pull the other one! | as if |
Acting like a hound, seeking romance round female | WOOFING |
African native bloomer on the banks of one river | GIRAFFE |
Bear child, mother’s fifth | TOTE |
Cardinal, say, is back holding a letter-opener | DEAR |
Clad like Elizabethan gent seizing uniform, the company’s own | in-house |
Current character in Greece, mostly affable Greek princess | IPHIGENIA |
Different water temperatures crossed by returning river boat | YACHT |
Endless words to acclaim a hollow rockery’s little flower | TRIBUTARY |
French construction line pocketing one juicy cut | CHATEAUBRIAND |
I expect complaint: university with old teacher’s regressing | no doubt |
It means getting more bread that’s flatter, not soft | RAISE |
Jazzy riffs absorbing to guitar person just getting a record? | first offender |
Kid catching punch in the gut in English town | SWINDON |
Clues | Answers |
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Like top execs, canned following dishonesty | high-flying |
One smashing image representing lions and cat without company | ICONOCLAST |
Papers about arrangement for sitar or recorder | DIARIST |
Printer’s extremely testy stare maintaining order | TYPEWRITER |
Queen caught by group of stars and hit artist | CLEOPATRA |
Rope and anchorage at sea for expert there | OCEANOGRAPHER |
Russian girl after pinching a Republican’s bottom | NADIR |
Tenet of millenarianism will have faded, for example | future perfect |
Thought about Hattie’s exterior, with a proudly displayed bust | FIGUREHEAD |
Unpredictable scoundrel housed in Morecambe? | ERRATIC |
Variety star wanting covers for piece of music | ARIETTA |
We’re told the fellow’s going to part of Oxford? | HEEL |
What I might be in series from television, in theory | NINTH |
Word just in recent science fiction hit | NEWSFLASH |