The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 9059
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Approaches | NEARS |
| Arab leader | SHEIKH |
| Australian marsupial | KOALA |
| Building inscription | EPIGRAPH |
| Daphne du Maurier novel | REBECCA |
| Defiant of authority | INSUBORDINATE |
| Foreign mission | EMBASSY |
| Former Persian governor | SATRAP |
| Game on horseback | POLO |
| Greatest in size | BIGGEST |
| Interlaced structure | MESH |
| Layered sponge cake | SANDWICH |
| Lingering | TARRYING |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Marriage | WEDLOCK |
| Muslim ruler | CALIPH |
| Muslim sovereign | SULTAN |
| Neither very good or very bad | so-so |
| Nobleman | DUKE |
| Norwegian capital | OSLO |
| Offspring | PROGENY |
| Ruin, downfall | UNDOING |
| Seizing power by force | USURPING |
| Six-faced solid | CUBE |
| Spanish painter | GOYA |
| Spreader of malicious gossip | SCANDALMONGER |
| Touch, lean on | ABUT |
