The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 2463
| Clues |
Answers |
| Ageing international player outside hotel, mate |
old chap |
| Book van dished out Russian-born novelist |
NABOKOV |
| Change trip to work |
COMMUTE |
| Chemical element is beginning to melt — but hydrogen absorbs that |
BISMUTH |
| Claim gold’s fashionable for chair |
PROFESSORSHIP |
| Doctor writing stuff that’s a source of befuddlement to many |
DRINK |
| Food shop absolutely getting goods supplied |
DELIVERY |
| Fruit they crushed with motorcar |
cherry tomato |
| Fruit-tree — excellent example, but not large |
PEAR |
| Go into heart of America — though not Colorado initially |
ENTER |
| Group of birds? Wrong to accept kittiwake’s wings |
SKEIN |
| Hear policeman out? One may get the picture |
pinhole camera |
| Clues |
Answers |
| I’d returned in car with right financial expert |
AUDITOR |
| Is deviant seeing Queen in corset? |
STRAYS |
| Make more of Times PA, in conclusion |
EXPAND |
| Oboe, say, bringing in string, worked in studio? |
RECORDED |
| Old King and his daughter adopting rising company tradesman |
GROCER |
| Pointer seems broken — how long before it moves? |
response time |
| Practical book linking America and the French |
USABLE |
| Rival to Edison engaged in debates later |
TESLA |
| Scavenger longing to occupy hot area |
HYENA |
| Senior officer to be heading for Rome in just over four weeks |
OCTOBER |
| Stop question of identity getting answer |
WHOA |
| Test of family with bishop coming out |
TRIAL |