| The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 9250 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Air of tantalising mystery | INTRIGUE |
| Anarchic | LAWLESS |
| Arrangement of one’s locks | HAIRDO |
| Curl up cosily together | SNUGGLE |
| Cut piece of foliage | SPRIG |
| Deadly sin | ENVY |
| Disengage, separate | DETACH |
| Drinks receptacle | MUG |
| Falsehood | LIE |
| Indolent | LAZY |
| Machine lubricant | GREASE |
| Materialise | APPEAR |
| Mountain plant | ALPINE |
| Muscular firmness | TONE |
| One followed by 100 zeros | GOOGOL |
| Outer wall of a castle | BAILEY |
| Pallid in complexion | ASHEN |
| Part of speech | NOUN |
| Passivity | INACTION |
| Period before Christmas | ADVENT |
| Show of respect | HOMAGE |
| Space devoid of matter | VACUUM |
| Track event contested by teams of four | relay race |
| Travel widely | globe-trot |
