| The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 9067 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Act improperly | MISBEHAVE |
| Ahead | ONWARDS |
| Become less intense | SUBSIDE |
| Close | SHUT |
| Constantly worry about something | OBSESS |
| Damp and cold | DANK |
| Fragments (of talk); seizes | SNATCHES |
| Frozen water | ICE |
| G&S comic opera | the gondoliers, Utopia Limited, IOLANTHE, PATIENCE |
| Impair | MAR |
| Make a formal speech | ORATE |
| Maroon; thread | STRAND |
| Member of a West Germanic people | SAXON |
| Nabokov novel | LOLITA |
| Nut | PISTACHIO |
| Open area with acid sandy soil | HEATH |
| Percussion instrument | COWBELL |
| Plum-like fruit | DAMSON |
| Poisonous | TOXIC |
| Rare | UNCOMMON |
| Set; become firmer | GEL |
| Severe suffering | ANGUISH |
| Small piece | BIT |
