| The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 9226 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Adage | PROVERB |
| Biblical vessel | ARK |
| Clandestine group | CABAL |
| Coerced, compelled | PRESSURED |
| Contemplation | THOUGHT |
| Device needed for drinks sealed with crown caps | bottle-opener |
| East African country | KENYA |
| Edible shellfish | SCALLOP |
| Female sheep | EWE |
| Flax fabric | LINEN |
| Follow persistently | DOG |
| Foreshadow | PORTEND |
| Imprecise | LOOSE |
| Indirect consequence | REPERCUSSION |
| Indulgent meal | BLOWOUT |
| Irrefutable evidence | PROOF |
| Portraitist’s subject | SITTER |
| Priest’s enclosed platform | PULPIT |
| Remove errors from (a computer system) | DEBUG |
| Ruminate (on) | REFLECT |
| Stretch of grassland | PRAIRIE |
| Tear-jerker | WEEPIE |
| Trespassing thief | BURGLAR |
| Trouble, fuss | BOTHER |
| Vast unit of distance | light year |
| Whip used for flogging | CAT |
