| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 28711 |
| Clues | Answers |
| A female tennis ace | ASHE |
| Actually withdrawing a pound in bank | RELY |
| Assume one is in position | POSIT |
| Cocktail to pick up at lunchtime perhaps reluctantly at first, a small quantity | MARGARITA |
| Collapsed, going by railway? Don’t use the line? | tumble dry |
| Couple like party not to end? Time I’m going | ASSOCIATE |
| Devoutly hopes to hear appreciative remarks | PRAYS |
| Disabled, needing oxygen by the sea | one-armed |
| Express disappointment in feeble books | LAMENT |
| Girl abandoned opera part, close to return | ARIADNE |
| Guide always follows the way | STEER |
| Hate Hobart, shivering when temperature drops | ABHOR |
| Is Douglas linked with England? So Donne told us | no man is an island |
| Is not the first to discover discharge in kidneys | REINVENTS |
| Limit a territory parrot is kept in | IMITATE |
| Madly busy chap I see talking | MANIC |
| Morale so bad in auction house | SALEROOM |
| Obsequious type turning up these days for radio programme | TODAY |
| Old Lionheart spitting out one fruit here | ORCHARD |
| On publication day, beer at New College | MAGDALEN |
| One clearing up mess decks with basket | poop scoop |
| Pictures about one American pope | pius ix |
| Playwright, one who asked for more money, a forger | oliver goldsmith |
| Promoted, work was satisfying — returned lively! | up-tempo |
| Reason I’m confused with vote | MOTIVE |
| Starry team? One that is | SIDEREAL |
| Sweet little thing in city retreat | ECLAIR |
| The up platform? | crows nest |
| Two aliens, one with no answer for hard taskmaster | MARTINET |
| Unusual form of capital Y | ATYPICAL |
