The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28785 December 13, 2023 Puzzle Answers

The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28785

Clues Answers
A mixture with one left out — bad luck ADVERSITY
Add water to bouquet SPRAY
Band in performance that’s barely finished STRIP
Call to stop unit returning — disgusting! ENOUGH
Capital: something that constricts gains acquired BOGOTA
Celebration of one side, each grabbing the other REVELRY
Change I printed in bold INTREPID
Company with help for speaker, often upstanding performer COMIC
Democrat’s relating to nonvoters in state needing attention DISREPAIR
Desert ship? Left having arrived earlier CAMEL
Envisaged either part of iron tool FORESAW
Evangelist takes turn with person delivering letters GOSPELLER
Even if competent, having change of heart over appeal ALBEIT
Festive decoration, quite neglected by wife HOLLY
Fish stew appearing inferior to Brit POMFRET
Clues Answers
Got ready for dance she rearranged ENCASHED
Heard why I rested in bunk like some children BOYISH
Like rook moves, perhaps, what’s odd about king and pawn finish after I moved? PERPENDICULAR
Look for a second good weapon GLANCE
Most bizarre couple holding hands that is separated by monarch WEIRDEST
Old-fashioned computing aid to record sound of a cadence LOGARITHM
Prepare for match maybe, running around on rising ground TERRAIN
Priest carrying English carol-singer, we hear, who’s very light FEATHERWEIGHT
Reason for insurance being cancelled initially: too old OVERAGE
Recluse found in woman’s college in Cambridge HERMIT
Record hard precious stone cut, in brief EPHEMERAL
Republican’s opponent in solitary, mistreated ROYALIST
Salutation appropriate for John, Paul, or George, but not Ringo TOAST
What produces growth in pupil, slow but incomplete DILATOR
What’s irregular or oddly regular about one line? GUERRILLA

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