The Telegraph – CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,436 – Oct 20 2023
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Ratty — Favourite Little Creature’ university student’s penned | PETULANT |
| … bid to ban candidate? | NOTRUMP |
| A river bordered by bird burrows | WARREN |
| Bouquet for tech owner who added ‘X’ on … | MUSK |
| City where treasure may be stored by bishop, say, and Queen | MANCHESTER |
| Clock set to go backwards | DIAL |
| Denounced cryptic e.g. with dim pun | IMPUGNED |
| Eleventh-hour stay, little to the south | LASTMINUTE |
| Engineer leaves the Spanish geographer’s base | SEALEVEL |
| Families may be putting in this reduced model of course | MINIATUREGOLF |
| Feline — Matisse fancifully captures one that’s played up | SIAMESECAT |
| Field that takes an age to turn over | ARENA |
| Food devoured by hippopotamus tastes revolting | SATSUMA |
| Goal-fest at Everton … could be this home ground! | HOUSINGESTATE |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Growth of passion — ‘Mail me back’ getting oddly ignored | MIMOSA |
| He’d blog regularly — pretty good work on screen | EBOOK |
| Imprisons writers | PENS |
| Local alcohol delivered for member of the club | INSIDER |
| Lower chamber standing behind represented false humility | SELFABASEMENT |
| Number whose abbreviation would be its square root in Rome | MILLION |
| Oxygen contributes to exercising easing stress | AGONISE |
| Pass on portion of sweet, a gel Edward flipped over | DELEGATE |
| Self-built small ground-level home, not flat | ANTHILL |
| Team from 1 Across land here? | UNITEDKINGDOM |
| They rush over after wall’s destroyed | WATERFALLS |
| This could be canned music — no energy, but it has a following | TUNA |
| Universe having no origin is absorbing | OSMOSIS |
| What might lead to whispers from Wuhan? | CHINESE |
