The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28834 February 8, 2024, Clues and Answers
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Aristocrats, small number moved by current sign | NOBLEWOMEN |
| Bracing air a person found round most of animal park | OZONE |
| Brightness shown by English in old Welsh county briefly | GLEAM |
| Celebrate wildly, being suitable for putting up | erectable |
| Celebrity using half of capital touring India | LION |
| Coin once used in City University | ECU |
| Couple taken in some time after retirement | ITEM |
| Deceive a few about source of mulligatawny soup | CONSOMME |
| Frenchwoman’s mother in West? | MADAME |
| Girls originally employed in banks look at ornamental gem | tigers-eye |
| Having set up gear, learner cooked, entertaining new sweetheart | GIRLFRIEND |
| Highly populated like Lincoln? Not initially | RESIDENTIAL |
| I manage to catch CO and son overturning electron camera | iconoscope |
| Like flying birds circling new canvas sunshade | AWNING |
| Main feature of gundog, away in Scotland for first time? | SEAWATER |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Novelist’s crazed beast caught between two similar crossings | Ford Madox Ford |
| Peculiar to a big lob, it’s essential to the score | OBBLIGATO |
| Poor American lad losing heart, like some senior councillors | ALDERMANIC |
| Reportedly next in line’s bearing | AIR |
| Seize woman not fully identified | ANNEX |
| Songbird enveloped at first in brightly-coloured flags | reed bunting |
| Sports club employee: no good? He delivers | ROUNDSMAN |
| Supporter missing start of political gathering | ALLY |
| Tenor taking break with daughter | DRIFT |
| Time to get up and do the press chief’s job | EDIT |
| Toothless type in drama oddly having the Italian look | ARMADILLO |
| Travel about carrying small shrub | GORSE |
| Tree harsh old American disposed of in a song | ARAUCARIA |
| Twangy start to accompaniment disturbing northern girl | NASAL |
| Untried bridge-player with drinks in antipodean state | New South Wales |