| The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 9229 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| — Brothers, aviation pioneers | WRIGHT |
| Cook in ignited brandy | FLAMBE |
| Deliberately destructive act | SABOTAGE |
| Deprived of sensation | NUMB |
| Elfin being | SPRITE |
| Equatorial country | GABON |
| Euphoria | BLISS |
| Everyday, habitual | ROUTINE |
| Female aristocratic title | BARONESS |
| Hold back | RESTRAIN |
| Included comprehensively | ENCOMPASSED |
| Insensitive | CALLOUS |
| Lift or throw with effort | HEAVE |
| Observe at first hand | WITNESS |
| Palaver, commotion | FUSS |
| Poetry | VERSE |
| Poorly ventilated | AIRLESS |
| Provide food (for) | CATER |
| Puppy | WHELP |
| Repulsion | DISGUST |
| Small carnivorous mammal | WEASEL |
| Sphere; dance | BALL |
| Succinct | CONCISE |
| Tedious | TIRESOME |
| Therefore | THUS |
