| The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 9223 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Advice | COUNSEL |
| Automobile | CAR |
| Backchat, cheek | LIP |
| Boxing | PUGILISM |
| City nicknamed “Auld Reekie” | EDINBURGH |
| Concerned with one’s own pleasure only | self-indulgent |
| Disruptive change | UPHEAVAL |
| Fashion, fad | TREND |
| Graze | ABRASION |
| Memory loss | AMNESIA |
| Miss out | SKIP |
| Open-topped tart | FLAN |
| Owings | DEBT |
| Clues | Answers |
| Plant with flower spikes | LUPIN |
| Pub drink | ALE |
| Put forward for debate | POSIT |
| Quiver | TREMBLE |
| Reference book | ENCYCLOPAEDIA |
| Root vegetable | BEET |
| Sewing machine pedal | TREADLE |
| Shadowy mastermind | Eminence grise |
| Shaped, moulded | SCULPTED |
| Slightly leavened bread | PITTA |
| Stout footwear | BOOTS |
| Unappreciated | THANKLESS |
| Winter sports implement | SKI |
