| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28611 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Almost convinced about old tart | SOUR |
| Anticyclone arrives in Scots region | HIGHLANDS |
| Baseball fielder and items he wears when running? | SHORTSTOP |
| Broadcast now so faint | SWOON |
| Card box for footwear | SHOE |
| Carved figure from galley regularly about years after long-dead ship | GARGOYLE |
| Church follows New Testament about Old Nick | NOTCH |
| Claim during trial about English Republican | INTEREST |
| Client is against a girl returning | VASSAL |
| Concertgoer taking in good artist, one who shapes concert | PROGRAMMER |
| Dog bound to be supported by queen | SPRINGER |
| Drug check protecting friendly community and its environment | ECOSYSTEM |
| Front runners in shock photo finish paying out | SPENDING |
| Fruit began going off in truck | LOGANBERRY |
| Iberia’s fare is covered by plane width, place of origin and hirer out mostly | spanish omelette |
| Leave out Bard’s title role when mounted in reduced form? | OMIT |
| Mathematician coming round to teaching | TUTORING |
| Namely this, metamorphic? | SCHIST |
| Our father’s around when work’s finished | after hours |
| Peak adding singular note to hat | CAPSTONE |
| Plot after papa gets fresh Covid variant sans name in lab exposure? | photomicrograph |
| Point about unique selling point | CUSP |
| Prudent to pursue universal employment | USAGE |
| Put up with song ultimately written like Bartók | HUNGARIAN |
| Run-up to the weekend finishes in intimacy | FRIENDSHIP |
| See you master lingo finally ready for Italy? | EURO |
| Sharpness about tungsten guitar string’s sound | TWANG |
| Something valuable chap extracted from beet | GOLD |
| Tsar shot certainly in error | ASTRAY |
| What can grip bridge supports both sides of line | PLIERS |
