Crossword Answer Lookup

Times Cryptic Crossword #28222

Times Cryptic · 29 clues with answers and explanations · 2022-02-24

Explanations sourced from Times for the Times

Solve this puzzle on Times →

Across

1 Hussy's unclothed with detective after day in Riviera location (5,5)

Answer

MONTE CARLO
6 Impact one expects to have? (4)

Def

Impact

Answer

BUMP
8 As one might be, having confused note with four others? (4,4)

Answer

TONE DEAF
9 Unstructured mass survey needs sending back to party (6)

Def

party

Answer

DOLLOP
10 Comes in, displacing monarch, to find wooden characters (4)

Answer

ENTS
11 Fabulous group fashionably late appearing in ancient city (3,7)

Answer

THE BEATLES
12 Mystical system Henry introduced to eccentric Soho type (9)

Def

Mystical system

Answer

THEOSOPHY
14 Snake applying pressure to indigenous North Americans (5)

Def

Snake

Answer

CREEP
17 Strangler's device police informer carries round (5)

Answer

NOOSE
19 Youth alive to climate crisis crossing northern country (9)

Def

country

Answer

GREENLAND
22 Being old man, large ruffian should contain reduced crowd (10)

Answer

FATHERHOOD
23 Small cake presented with good sweetener (4)

Def

sweetener

Type

Charade

Expl

BUN (synonym="cake") + G (abbreviation="good") = BUNG; definition: "sweetener"

Answer

BUNG
24 I'd turned medieval guitar's tone down (6)

Answer

DILUTE
25 Bothering to swallow what's in best wine (8)

Def

wine

Answer

RIESLING
26 Cry out in sorrow when displacing back joint (4)

Def

joint

Answer

KNEE
27 Reader worried by Burke or Hare finally choosing body (10)

Def

body

Answer

ELECTORATE

Down

1 Shabby Shakespearean fairy employed by school broadcast (4-5)

Answer

MOTH-EATEN
2 Woman to take home incredibly neat clothes (7)

Def

Woman

Answer

NANETTE
3 Response when Conservative rises in the world (8)

Def

world

Answer

CREATION
4 Resort to accommodate student starting in some further education? (9,6)

Answer

REFRESHER COURSE
5 Where democracy initially denied, draws lots (6)

Def

lots

Answer

OODLES
6 With two parties involved, bare it all when dancing (9)

Type

Anagram

Expl

anagram of BARE + IT + ALL = BILATERAL

Answer

BILATERAL
7 Period said to be this writer's speciality — nothing in that (7)

Answer

MIOCENE
13 Building old and as you see unfinished (9)

Answer

OASTHOUSE
15 Class in gym excited, enthralled by outstanding teacher (9)

Def

teacher

Answer

PEDAGOGUE
16 Not feeling pressure in extremely close finish (4,4)

Answer

DEAD HEAT
18 Zero put on tax? One at work gives sustained applause (7)

Def

Zero

Answer

OVATION
20 Abrasive former student one's interrupted (7)

Answer

ALUMINA
21 Cheeses spoken of for picnic (6)

Def

picnic

Answer

BREEZE