Cryptic December 01, 2019 Answers
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Cryptic Crossword No. 1,553 by Peter posted on Sunday, December 01, 2019
Across Clues
- Retired principal keeping hands over picture
- Foil covering display of bad language
- Confused rat breeds with bird!
- Army chaplain has accommodation next to soldiers
- Babe upset about rattle coming unstuck starts to get a little grizzly
- Sound made by soldier in pub
- See 31
- See 31
- Spied for heads of national organisation, scrutinising every document
- Power given to the French after test case
- College fellow holding fragments of pad that’s hard to decipher
- European garlic’s beginning to pong!
- See 3 Down
- Cook latched on to competition involving various disciplines
- Restructuring helped things afoot beyond human control
Down Clues
- Bird losing argument in fight
- Landlady welcoming foreign lad holding tip of French stick
- Relaxed alone prior to meeting with leader of supposed inferiors
- Saint sent abridged papal document to Byzantium
- Large queue turning up to receive tons of basic foodstuff
- Advertising for irreligious lawyer?
- Policeman from the south is Scandinavian
- Border held by determined Germans
- Financial middleman almost bankrupt
- Man eating guts of putrefied fish is a skinflint
- Large port is charged
- Insignificant fluid loss?
- Stays for two drinks before end of festivities
- Summary found in newspaper cutting
- Recorded observations originally left in spaces in registers
- See 31 Across
- Relative with endless string …
- … killed a great number