The Telegraph – CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,502 – Jan 5, 2024, Clues and Answers
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| A bathroom fixture lacking base and stand | ABIDE |
| Advantage in competition from loaf, singular baked item | HEADSTART |
| Albatross regularly following sound from cork trees | POPLARS |
| Ball that’s targeted article by large canine | JACKAL |
| Casino built outside Italy’s capital city | NICOSIA |
| Consumed all contents from set rate menu | EATEN |
| Cook rhubarb with fish? That’s revolutionary | DOCTOR |
| Digging Eastern illustrations around hotel | EARTHWORK |
| Distress when a French copper cuts foot | AFFLICT |
| Funds removed from banks I had cancelled | UNDID |
| Further test son’s taken in two subjects | RESIT |
| Machine that turns coffee making low temperature hot | LATHE |
| Merry prisoner court dismissed on the bottle | CONVIVIAL |
| Multitude of cycling heats | SWARM |
| Not running, aluminium internal parts | OFFAL |
| Out of many directions, soldiers returned in formal line beside lodgings | FROMALLQUARTERS |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Padded copper ring with gleaming exterior | CUSHIONY |
| Parts of plants sustained energy | STAMINA |
| Partygoer comparatively bold removing top | RAVER |
| Posh folk taken from Paris to Sicily | ARISTOS |
| Roast meat put with reduced wine | LAMBAST |
| Roughly nine letters Matt is sending to Coventry | SILENTTREATMENT |
| Stickybeaks in conversation care about lottery | PRIZEDRAW |
| Stirrers from Costa no cost — gratis to put another way | AGITATORS |
| Superfluous part of garment, we’re told | WASTE |
| Swimming in her pond is a mood booster | ENDORPHIN |
| Type of lorry winged beast escaped, so Spooner says | FLATBED |
| Urges to grasp core of definitive disciplines | PUNISHES |
| Various waterfowl close to lake | DIVERSE |
| Wood like dog’s brought back | BALSA |
| Writers Laurence and Laurie discussed in rigorous way | STERNLY |