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