| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28462 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A figure fancier and strangely tailored | IDOLATER |
| A little son being important | SMATTERING |
| Account by America __ time I have a word in case that’s objective | ACCUSATIVE |
| Alone around home, ending in black and hard depression | SINKHOLE |
| Boxer who sat up after a clobbering | SOUTHPAW |
| Burden __ and where it might fall | ONUS |
| Cancel journey after a number of deliveries | OVERRIDE |
| Clubs undergoing trial for competition | CONTEST |
| Daughter perhaps is telling stories | RELATION |
| Disdainful second refusal over British blunder | SNOBBISH |
| Frustrated Christian’s superior and unruly fellow | BLIGHTED |
| Gave money to area beset by rising depression | PAID |
| Instructions to leave a high-rise building derelict | down-and-out |
| Is mixing with women attractive? | WINSOME |
| Lose current agent destroyed after attempt that’s lost billions | STAGNATE |
| Note tons absorbed in needlework | CROTCHET |
| One harvesting fish circling at a particular point | GATHERER |
| Politician who raises the roof | THATCHER |
| Ray perhaps is small and perversely heavy | SUNLIGHT |
| Ruin __ it lies west of here | DASH |
| See cricket perhaps missing runs | SPOT |
| Shut up Zulu bands performing around king | IMPRISON |
| Southeastern battlefield’s no open aspect | SECRECY |
| Tsar following dictator killing off a popular composer | SULLIVAN |
| Vessel’s company reported over girl, we hear? | CRUCIBLE |
| What could be flyover crew’s problem on the earlier road | HIGHWAYMAN |
| What takes its toll of fish dangling from reel? | TURNPIKE |
| Wife putting on fleecy layer | WADDING |
