Category Archives: AFR Cryptic

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 BEDSPACE A follower escaped in disguise with hotelier’s offering (8) B + anagram of ESCAPED 5 SCRAPS Breaks up fights (6) Double Definition 9 NAPOLEON North Pole fortified by a functioning French general (8) … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 RUBBLE Two billion collected by government remains (6) BB inside RULE 4 PROTESTS Objects and worthless stuff carried by troublesome people (8) ROT inside PESTS 9 METHAMPHETAMINE Ice, say, received with meat the pieman … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 GERMAN MEASLES Manager seems upset about onset of Lyme disease (6,7) Anagram of MANAGER SEEMS outside (L)yme 9 DISCERN Uncoordinated dancer is missing out on a spot (7) Anagram of DANCER IS minus A … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 ESTEEM High achiever deals with withdrawn credit (6) E + (MEETS reversed) 5 TACKLES Has a go at gutless clerk in accounts? (7) C(ler)K inside TALES 9 GOLDEN TRIANGLE Source of drugs, noted girl, … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 DUGITE Snake grasped it easily at the start (6) DUG + IT + (E)asily 4 MANDATES Individual determines the age of charges (8) MAN + DATES 9 SKATE Runner and swimmer (5) Double Definition … Continue reading →