The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28772 November 28, 2023, Answers
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28772
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Accommodating description of race-track at times | easy-going |
| Adult insect? The writer’s not entirely enthralled | IMAGO |
| Bank assistance — pounds I will withdraw | REEF |
| Be powered by what overlong speakers do? | run on |
| Broadway musical, The King and I, by a small opera company | KISMET |
| Commentator’s dread: champ producing masses of data? | TERABYTE |
| Disorderly, on the loose, climbing into barrow | TUMULTUOUS |
| Dry, requiring feed of river? Digger produced | TROWEL |
| French are getting behind petition to host one group of stars | PLEIADES |
| Greeting PM? | the time of day |
| I backed limits on name for tavern — something anti-inflammatory? | IBUPROFEN |
| Locomotive to fail: no good stopping German one | tank engine |
| No great lecturer getting request to repeat something | PARDON |
| One-time rat transformed into model character? | MARIONETTE |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Patent finished before end of night | OVERT |
| Place for whoopee cushion, perhaps, after replacing a glee cushion | chaise longue |
| President implicating his country in exploitation? | ABUSE |
| Put down cards | DECK |
| Record fifth beer-pump? | TAPE |
| Runs out of gap on river in swimsuit? | BEACHWEAR |
| Sailor turning up in parsonage unexpectedly someone you want to see | persona grata |
| Second barbed comment? I fix upset artist | MODIGLIANI |
| Sound of animal having returned without a saddle | BAREBACK |
| Source of power wasted in loading train | national grid |
| Time after time bringing in second variable substitute | ERSATZ |
| Unspecified number evicted from stadium neighbourhood | AREA |
| Various hearings end in trouble for one served legal notice | GARNISHEE |
| Veteran less good without a right hand | WARHORSE |