The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26371 - March 28, 2016 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26371 - March 28, 2016 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Alfresco party held by blooming NCOs and privates!	OUTDOOR
Baker's product, one consumed by peevish worker	CROISSANT
Benefit sometimes associated with stripping?	ASSET
Bird's cry cheers a tot at sea	OYSTERCATCHER
Brass instrument an officer (Royal Navy) keeps in house	ALTHORN
Cheeky fellow bound to climb on horse	FRESH
Duke accepts right pay to be earliest New Year visitor	FIRSTFOOT
Feel able to contemplate one's path freed of snow?	SEEONESWAYCLEAR
Hard skin on horse in part of ear?	CORNCOB
He rates brewer's last beer drunk around our land	REBUKER
Heavyweight woman's circular carvings	TONDI
Improve what Newton introduced, father having left country	ENHANCE
Inspire declaration from Tory, not Liberal	IMBUE
Like Fink-Nottle, or his shotgun, possibly?	DOUBLEBARRELLED

Clues	Answers
Method of painting screen eating up savings account	GRISAILLE
Moor vessel finally round at back of foreign hotel?	OTHELLO
Most dull-witted son, and his position in class?	SLOWEST
Old British soldier's rejecting of western jazzman	DUKEELLINGTON
Points country folk raised about limits of Elgar's works?	SERENADES
Political aide hurries back! No following, possibly?	SPINDOCTOR
Primarily Huw, Wyn and Young Lloyd's emotional fervour	HWYL
Relative reverse for City, one in Germany	NIECE
Synthetic material used in many longboats	NYLON
The writer's staff returned to really empty sleeping quarters	DORMITORY
Travelling, a single woman welcomes Queen after wine	ITINERANCY
Turkish commander containing resistance in old Mogul capital	AGRA
Weird union leader just about to appear around Thursday	UNEARTHLY
Where film buffs go, crossing river in torrid zone?	TROPICS