The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28743 October 25, 2023, Crossword Answers

The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28743

Clues Answers
Animal smell appalling at first in pub INHUMAN
Be unsuccessful catching insect? A pigeon? FANTAIL
Cast doubt on record right to prepare for publishing DISCREDIT
Copy type of smart card, getting glib about it FACSIMILE
Cranky chap touring cape with very little money ECCENTRIC
Disallow simple song, mostly one for robbers BANDITTI
Downcast, emblem having dropped off wall? CRESTFALLEN
Drone, perhaps, initially caught high in tree BEECH
Egyptian town with a hospital on the outskirts ASWAN
Flaubert’s first clever story FABLE
Flop about, laughing out loud before cut LOLLOP
Greek mathematician, 50, in Brussels police department EUCLID
In England her tales involved two fairy-tale siblings hansel and gretel
In folk-tales, a wicked gnome SAW
International firm showing careless indifference UNCONCERN

 

Clues Answers
Large vehicle runs into small parrot LORRY
Liberal in criticising local government procedure PLANNING
Light shawl principally found in Central Manchuria FICHU
Lines by stylish woman dismissing knight’s sharp practice CHICANERY
Old college principal rejecting a painter’s many-sided figures POLYHEDRA
Old flame playing for time, speaking off the cuff (with son, not unknown) extemporisation
One church sure to be inaccessible in winter? ICEBOUND
Plant Asquith, say, endlessly encountered in Georgia GERBERA
Promise offered by place to west of border PLEDGE
Skipper of boat identity theft knocked back! BARGEMAN
Subscriber loses head, seeing glowing coal EMBER
Take too much time with respect to trip OVERRUN
Unflinching Catholic dignitary holding up in current board INDOMITABLE
Vehicle needing a lot of attention CAR
Writer crossing a road, like certain poets BARDIC

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