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 |