The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 2279 |
Clues |
Answers |
A rum ace, funny clown |
MARCEAU |
Americans African lions mauled |
CALIFORNIANS |
Army minister’s accommodation attended by soldiers |
PADRE |
Celebrity not entirely graceful |
ACE |
Certainly at home with something to be done |
INDEED |
Communicated something confused and not up to date? |
MESSAGED |
Deceived daughter escaped |
DELUDED |
Deliverer, first to call on Italian gentleman |
CONSIGNOR |
Depict fashionable men at weddings where receptions are held |
drawing rooms |
Final messages needing money spent by Somerset city |
FAREWELLS |
French resort invaded by English relation |
NIECE |
Get away from Eastern mischief-maker, retreating |
FLEE |
Good paper needed to wrap one present |
GIFT |
Head cook entertaining India’s leader |
CHIEF |
I feel cold, not half, somehow? I’m frozen! |
ice floe |
Island’s rocky outcrop spanning one mile |
TIMOR |
Modest or awfully rude, me? |
DEMURE |
Mum has eaten horrible animal |
MANATEE |
One knight under emotional strain and passionate |
INTENSE |
Order company doctor to get worker in? |
COMMAND |
Quiet sort of football game at first bringing resigned gesture |
SHRUG |
Rowed with a leftie __ nothing to begin with |
OARED |
Some insolent note |
SOL |
Style large or small-scale reproduction |
MODEL |
Support some noncompliant Russians |
TRUSS |
Top conurbation accommodating a maximum number? |
CAPACITY |