Today's The Times Cryptic Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The Times Cryptic

(December 23, 2024)

ACROSS

• 1. Poor, cutting short stag party - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Judges restricted choice of dessert? - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Type of solid fish almost, not about to be caught - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Poorly dressed apparently in old kingdom - Crossword Clue
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• 11. Conspiracy of silence breaks at Rome - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Person taking in hospital bible, showing proper demeanour - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Street musician after endless wild party more annoyed to secure no date - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Organise meat to be cooked for unconventional household - Crossword Clue
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• 20. A boy always safe with cooking equipment - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Joint freer after manipulation, if energy put in - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Agency arresting scoundrel, a chirpy type - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Radio is crook - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Choice includes a base metal or precious one - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Nervous, holding forth in loud, aggressive manner - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 2. Given assurance, from public library order in a book - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Decline appointment, keeping outside but dropping by - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Confine confusion in magic diagram - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Revolutionary task acquiring current home - Crossword Clue
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• 6. Secret police having initially hunted for one secret store - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Woman, Verdi heroine who loses her head - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Proclaimed aim to cuddle cat - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Sadly unloved, me: is no one ever to be in my arms? - Crossword Clue
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• 15. With no end of space, looks for oil that may be on one's estates - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Corps put up for such corrective treatment - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Puzzle as small irritant's overthrown sheep - Crossword Clue
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• 19. Object to name having to be changed around - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Twist flipped over new cocktail ingredient - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Back in first part of post-lunch period - Crossword Clue
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