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The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 08 09
The Times Cryptic
Clue
Answer
Ramshackle Welsh store closing early, offering zero value
WORTHLESS
Partner is criminal type
CONSORT
Killer insect wife brushed off
ASP
Ignorant, like many soldiers about end of operation
UNINFORMED
Joint work brought back large animal
HIPPO
Viticulture’s rumour mill?
GRAPEVINE
For leader shortly cooked sponge
FREELOAD
Sound of activity in university Her Majesty is going round
HUM
In refurbished inn, a relaxed six-footer
ALEXANDRINE
Spare time not disguised
OVERT
Insect having an insect’s tail
ANT
River runs away from country houses
GANGES
Journalist, heading away from hut
HACK
Scandinavian taking in opening of contemporary ballet?
DANCE
60 minutes showing no opening for us
OUR
Army head acquires a second scar
CICATRICE
Laughed and shook her hips? Good for wife!
GIGGLED
Bird’s claw regularly in its beak?
MACAW
Expression of revulsion in one heavily criticising carnage
SLAUGHTER
Inflexible barrier installed by a worker
ADAMANT
Spooky horse seen around hackney carriage?
MACABRE
Prompt English journalist to probe possible traitor
SPEEDY
Unsteady, twisted across wide street
WAVERY
Picked up suitable one to wear fancy raincoat for approval
RATIFICATION
Nanny’s tender love, coming in to collect daughter
GOATHERD
Quiet appreciation of music bears fruit
PEAR
Clear evidence of leg injury I had
LIMPID
As well it’s where a countdown is heading
TOO
Brought round again, gunners tired, needing energy to rise
REAWAKENED
Crashed bus brought in by worker’s partner
HUSBAND
Dreadful, and almost entirely accepted by Liverpudlian, mostly
SCANDALOUS
Place bedecked in unalloyed imperial colour
PURPLE
One small particle? In favour of 100
PROTON
Frequently become milder after losing head
OFTEN
VANITY CASES?
EGOS
Border crime dismissive of borders
RIM
Extra protection on helmet gets one almost cooked
GRILLE
Area covered by second best doctor on a temporary basis
STOPGAP
Relative area reduced by half? Not sure
UNCLEAR
River gets clogged up in sound
STYX
I’m blocking a friend’s ill-feeling
ACRIMONY
Building in garden where a serving of wine is free?
GLASSHOUSE