| The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28148 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A bishop trapped by two men in tangled vegetation | CHAPARRAL |
| Ailment dispatching commanding officer? How awful! | UGH |
| Beginner abandons most demanding challenge | EVEREST |
| Carefully considering one's options, unlike Charles the Fat, say? | THINKING |
| Catcher of worms, as the dodo was? | early bird |
| Children resulting from affair? | ISSUE |
| Coppers accepting a new punishment | PENANCE |
| Daughter in wig perhaps, having dropped an E? | DRUGGED |
| Drugs making you a prima donna? | HEROINE |
| Examined closely, as swordfish might be? | GRILLED |
| Goliath running wild, inspiring northern hatred | LOATHING |
| Head office exploiting position in Barbican perhaps | housing estate |
| Holy man in French island uprising | ELI |
| Lawgiver playing part in generalissimo's escape | MOSES |
| Layabout upset by occasionally chaotic dancers | BOLSHOI |
| Lusty deb drooled horribly | red-blooded |
| Music-maker's poetic invocation of lover in recital? | OBOE |
| Possibly bitter about China supporter | befriender |
| Response to expulsion by university admitting not so much | bless you |
| Revival of addict, back with second award | RESUSCITATION |
| S for sovereign? | head of state |
| Seemed happy moving south __ but deluded | MISLED |
| Sinister Tory lord returning at start of year | CREEPY |
| Spot man in house holding bomb? On the contrary | PIMPLE |
| The Speaker's faction expressed their disappointment? | SIGHED |
| Those curious poker yarns scoundrel initially concocted | nosy parkers |
| Top-class teacher having a lie-in? | ABED |
| Unpromising areas in which son finds things to eat | DESSERTS |
| The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2016 |
| Clues | Answers |
| A wicket with line wrong | AWRY |
| Alcoholic drink disappeared, tipped up __ around two gallons | EGGNOG |
| Aquatic conveyance right behind | RAFT |
| Christmas delivery vehicle butcher mentioned | SLEIGH |
| Criminal group extremely lanky: tall and thin | GANGLY |
| Dull floor covering | MAT |
| Fashionable electric vehicles backed | SMART |
| Gemstone, minute, received by dodgy dealer | EMERALD |
| Go in with can, embracing a host | ENTERTAIN |
| Greek character runs house | RHO |
| Hat on Yankee supporting aristocrat's football club | derby county |
| Hospital doctor from triage's moving into middle of Harrow | REGISTRAR |
| Modest business year | COY |
| Old Royal Marine probing grandma's regional dialect | NORMAN |
| One who might appear before court jester with cape | WITNESS |
| Pictures usually seen here right inside cooking area | GALLERY |
| Point above large church somewhere in central London | WESTMINSTER |
| Polish in command initially on ancient boundary | RUBICON |
| Pre-adolescent child, affectedly quaint, developed anger | TWEENAGER |
| Rat lifted rubbish beneath train mostly | TRAITOR |
| Reasonable to circulate learner's talent | FLAIR |
| Regret rugby game's ending | RUE |
| Section of steel finial small and delicate | ELFIN |
| Tall animal's error crossing one river | GIRAFFE |
| The Spanish bend part of arm | ELBOW |
| Vertical space in building Rita's altered thoroughly | STAIRWELL |
