| The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 2405 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Change position in pub, finding horizontal beam | CROSSBAR |
| Composer contributing to popular newsletter | ARNE |
| Conservative leader too old for media exposure | COVERAGE |
| Eg Hannah’s daughter after friend in Italian city | PALINDROME |
| Fading Welshman with money touring East | EVANESCENT |
| Food for a friar | TUCK |
| Galloping Etruscan “horsemen” | CENTAURS |
| Give up fish for doughy pudding | DUMPLING |
| Group of peacekeepers perhaps, and what they may do after flight? | UNPACK |
| I disclaim concealing songbird’s individuality | IDENTITY |
| Irritable about party mostly — it’s a mockery | TRAVESTY |
| Keenness more difficult for a Cockney, we hear? | ARDOUR |
| Leak found by wise man swallowing tablet | SPILLAGE |
| Maintain stronghold | KEEP |
| One bound to succeed’s reported bearing | HEIR |
| One overwhelmed by graduate’s prejudice | BIAS |
| Part-song giving rise to impish enjoyment | GLEE |
| Position of sculptures Epstein initially turned out | STATUS |
| Price hotel fixed for air transport | HELICOPTER |
| Restrain journalists overcome by drink? | SUPPRESS |
| Scotsman possibly crossing river in Asian republic | IRAN |
| Unfathomable — not like A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BOTTOMLESS |
| Vegetable found in vessel in dump | TURNIP |
| Young creature Mike brought into research-room | LAMB |
