Cryptic December 08, 2019 Answers
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Cryptic Crossword No. 1,554 by Silvanus posted on Sunday, December 08, 2019
Across Clues
- Half-cut state on wine that adds flavour when cooking
- Seller of very little scrap gold
- Read an MP’s novel, it’s set in Bosnia & Herzegovina, for instance
- Crime clerics uncovered
- Character inclined to be kept within hospital ICU
- Foreign father receiving taunt against European parentage
- Grand estate is designed for West Sussex town
- Duty of conservationist at heart
- Chanteuse originally modelling a daring article of clothing
- Broken coffee beans, say, occasionally man is extremely reluctant to send back
- Distance raced needs good energy
- “Idiot,” Iranian once declared to be slander
- Quits job, taking away tips nevertheless
- Credit setter’s given in Alabama is deplorable
Down Clues
- Leader is poorly understood
- Faces of Spanish expats possess intensely attractive colour
- Strike over individual ruling? Something schoolteachers must do
- Contracts essentially null and void for motorway, perhaps
- Second person carrying rejected travel permit becomes shifty
- Reputational damage in party, mostly concerning Democrat appeal
- Note round variety of apple
- Got up without notice to speak directly to journalist
- Sort of pay hard for African politicians to accept? On the contrary
- Arranging flowers in Tokyo store to welcome group shortly
- Enduring restricted times for lying outside
- Hangs around spreading rotten lies putting cardinal down
- This one overheard rumour Extra Time isn’t available?
- Build up a company, reportedly
- Agree flying regularly stops American being discontented
- Box southpaw, finally switching to right