| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28453 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A French fellow outside university, one to ease irritation? | UNGUENT |
| A police group is receiving huge complaint | ACIDOSIS |
| Accountant in car somewhere on Dartmoor? | AUDITOR |
| Agree a fixture | MATCH |
| Baddy leading soldiers in military unit | CADRE |
| Beasts: rule-breakers, we hear? | CHEETAHS |
| Cruel, needing time to replace one that’s trustworthy | VERACIOUS |
| Decoration in a part of play with mother taking the lead | DAMASCENE |
| Diamonds __ really cool stuff | ICE |
| Divers manoeuvring round place being looked at again | REVISITED |
| Don’t, for instance, study adhesive friction | CONTRACTION |
| Fever that’s non-specific having five going down | AGUE |
| Food is one thing after another reportedly | CEREAL |
| Football official reader found in the Mirror? | REFLECTOR |
| Husband and I eat meat __ fantastic source of iron | HAEMATITE |
| Long garment lacking a measure of thermal protection | TOG |
| Loud street outside zone in distant territory | far east |
| Maiden hiding in Exeter, out in a faraway place | EXTREME |
| Meet Carol, disorganised person who keeps you waiting? | LATECOMER |
| Minor war god made to look silly in an entertaining place | drawing room |
| Miraculous place of old, sure to have changed | LOURDES |
| Missile I had cast into river | TRIDENT |
| Most unlike Henry VIII __ king, cross, bumping off queen | RANGY |
| Object when odd journalist comes round | DEMUR |
| Odd stone __ how far it might be thrown? | STRANGE |
| Old coin, article blocking pipe? | DUCAT |
| One investigating trendy male, a poet | DICKINSON |
| Prophet raised an awful stink | NAHUM |
| Some land bill: concerning! | ACRE |
| Splendour of industrial plant about to be demolished | FINERY |
| The man’s accompanying Welsh woman? That’s the stuff! | HESSIAN |
| Training establishment with shaky foundation damaged __ start to search inside | SANDHURST |
