The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 2556 December 26 2023 Crossword Clues and Answers
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| About to beat famous racehorse | red rum |
| As champagne no longer being kept perhaps in the workplace | OFFICE |
| Avoid restaurants perhaps with unlimited seating? | eat in |
| Brought up some loaves maybe, as announced | BRED |
| By day, small boy gives shudder | FRISSON |
| Early morning exhortation to Polish? | rise and shine |
| Entirely skint otologist? Not entirely | in toto |
| Good innkeepers producing spirits | GHOSTS |
| Ibis slithers all over the place in these lands | british isles |
| Ignore past appearance | OVERLOOK |
| Initially not anybody could compose this Irish song | Danny Boy |
| Kid, torn, resolved to make toast | drink to |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Old Greek colony with aliens on it, periodically returning | IONIA |
| Pacific island with nothing, then a hospital and university | OAHU |
| Place to stay following golf | HOTEL |
| Proceeds to place labels around family | TAKINGS |
| Raise flag | JACK |
| Rice dish, so dry, covered in port! | RISOTTO |
| Small folk for whom plain suit ill tailored | LILLIPUTIANS |
| So tactless in recording film in bank | INDISCREETLY |
| Some rotten nuisance: the result of “all work and no play”? | ENNUI |
| Star, losing heart, takes terrible chance | ASTERISK |
| Winter weather in south at present | SNOW |
| Word of objection in attempts to make compliments | TRIBUTES |