The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28765 November 20, 2023
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28765
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| A billion goats slaughtered for world economic development | GLOBALISATION |
| Article about the setter’s revolutionary nom de guerre | ANONYM |
| Backer briefly entering explosive function | TANGENT |
| Confess some shallow notions | OWN |
| Cunning insult overheard | SLEIGHT |
| Devoid of ego, listener somehow gives way | RELENTS |
| Eco-friendly vehicle part contains uranium, really oddly | carbon neutral |
| English stigma made French scoff | ESCARGOT |
| Fancy Easter sun and sweet wine | SAUTERNES |
| Finally organising diverse people into rank and order | ARRANGEMENT |
| Flash one’s lower parts | SECONDI |
| Former magistrate thought about limits of lenience | AEDILE |
| Garments putting pressure on navels | pinnies |
| Kindly feeding extremely suspicious bees etc | SWARMS |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Law firm exec regularly duped about new licence | a free hand |
| Left sweethearts to shed clothes | OVER |
| Low spirits start to get lower? | GLOOM |
| Man perhaps read aloud passage | ISLE |
| Mixture of male impetuosity and half-cut rage | MELANGE |
| Most stylish and vacuous supermodel, I’m afraid, is in France | SLEEKEST |
| Old story about India at back of Republican magazine | REPOSITORY |
| Queasy hosts digested last of blood pudding | spotted dick |
| Service is no good if earlier however | EVENSONG |
| Silver pressing on primate’s Christian love | AGAPE |
| Singular character departs on a trip | STONED |
| Sky broadcast quality song | AIR |
| Tough old bird’s lost after terrible tale | LEATHERN |
| Weaselly type’s rowdy intemperance leaving church | pine marten |