Cryptic December 14, 2023 Answers
Welcome on our Website! In this website we post daily answers and solutions for The Independent Cryptic Crosswords. Below is the list of clues and answers for The Independent Cryptic December 14, 2023.
Clicking on the crossword clue will open a page with clue answer.
Cryptic Crossword No. 11,599 by Methuselah posted on Thursday, December 14, 2023
Across Clues
- Flâneur openly taking in his surroundings, presumably
- New recruits mostly speak without thinking to begin with
- Recordings of United overwhelmed by Barcelona’s cheers
- Reptile in trap to wriggle round here after shedding skin
- Crew have to abandon second ship
- Shoots, flowers, evergreen, peace at last
- Parrot not quite as dead as a dodo?
- Olympians possibly left out of medals
- Try to find someone faithful using phone
- Throw out swimmer moving back to front
- Dreadful private school grad with debts stuck outside No 10
- Letter from Rolling Stone clutched by woman now and then
- Network when in lofty surroundings – might an icebreaker be useful there?
- Just about out of debt, with a few coins
- Sending water away, ordered red again – or a dear gin?
- Inscrutable setter’s met with a lot of criticism
Down Clues
- Cases of old politician popping into drinks
- Comes through or, alternatively, is routed
- Battering ram opened front
- Exaggerate somewhat, in more ways than one
- Upwardly mobile clergyman going to a load of balls in Pride and Prejudice?
- Republican instead of Democrat returned – fix!
- It’s seventy feet but only one metre
- A flat for one some singleton’s flipped
- Insect to go slowly and then go quickly
- Amateur match official wearing protective gear – or not
- Perhaps it means, roughly, about meaning
- Wise man wrapping present
- Trouble with flies? A&E fixed up nether region
- Playwright crouched down to audience
- See 21
- Element of social media site nobody backed