| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28449 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A creation of Dumas on page that arouses pity | PATHOS |
| About to visit a girl grown up by this time | ALREADY |
| Blend of fragrances around garden regularly advanced | earl grey |
| Break watch: one’s not always working | part-timer |
| Bumbling constable has fruit on stalk | DOGBERRY |
| Burst of train speed unexciting | PEDESTRIAN |
| Chelsea net billowing? That’s this gone | clean sheet |
| Cut made in Christmas liturgy | SLIT |
| Decay beneath said building | ROTUNDA |
| Disabled, and one is excused from voting | IMPAIRED |
| Each day, sent in to cut one of these? | MEADOW |
| Employ Greek and old Arab outside sporting estate | grouse moor |
| Fantasy husband off to look for pity once | UNTRUTH |
| Girl composed verse full of ecstasy | MADELEINE |
| Grub puts a lot of fat on Virginia | LARVA |
| Huge fuss about king being a control freak | Big Brother |
| Large number Hun eliminated, inspiring a terror | DREAD |
| March up and down a row of shops | PARADE |
| Much to dish out to audience | a lot |
| Not entirely straightforward to look after soap setting | East End |
| Not paired off, daughters need love first of all | ODD |
| One patronising royal house perhaps as poor — agree to differ | OPERAGOER |
| Polish river, or German | ODER |
| Prove wrong to get out of bed? | DEBUNK |
| Puzzle of extremely reliable boat capsizing | REBUS |
| Romantic group seek a plot for development | lake poets |
| Shortly officially approve introducing freezing cold transport | BICYCLES |
| Show indifference right through small embrace | SHRUG |
| Tie finally put on to twist and knot | NODE |
| Turned up in canoe, but missing out | DUG |
| Two sorts of European closely related | GERMANE |
