| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28615 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A tactic I deployed to find lake | TITICACA |
| Agree scam must get old police turning up | CONCUR |
| Almost consider retail a kind of therapy | counselling |
| As a result of hard work cracked a new profession | for ones pains |
| Catch a husband, a smoker | HOOKAH |
| Crime against ploughman reported in a flash | SCINTILLA |
| Dandy dropping Ecstasy is a failure | DUD |
| Don’t sack old city: keep it under your boot perhaps | spare tyre |
| Dry chapter trimmed all round | PARCHED |
| Function in series | RUN |
| In election meeting Conservative on look out for Liberal to interrupt | CONCLAVE |
| In team playing left half, powerful winger | CASTLE |
| In the front beautiful arrangement in flowerbed | BORDER |
| It’s inhuman to black men needing a lift | ROBOT |
| Left individual with a few in solitary | LONESOME |
| Mysterious object Alice might have seen in the Duchess’s kitchen? | flying saucer |
| Old poet all bones, lacking later energy | SKELTON |
| Omen to take railway not street in holiday month | AUGURY |
| One’s not expected America to back British pronunciation to increase | SURPRISE |
| Spare new driver always having to cover paper round | left over |
| Steal in? | half-inch |
| Successor to Leo VI right to abdicate | VIRGO |
| The story, in short: depressed, being fat | TALLOW |
| Times covers revolutionary Iran in a sort of code | BINARY |
| Tramps on front of porch, one attracted by our neighbour | PHOBOS |
| Useless people on this stage? | dead wood |
| Wounded with gun, strain to get inside | STRICKEN |
| WW1 soldier at end of leave gets this order wrong | back to front |
