The Times - Cryptic - This puzzle, from 1983 takes the place of 26757 which is the third and final qualifying puzzle for The Times Crossword Championship 2017. The puzzle 26757 is available in pdf format from the Crossword Club. - June 21, 2017 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - This puzzle, from 1983 takes the place of 26757 which is the third and final qualifying puzzle for The Times Crossword Championship 2017. The puzzle 26757 is available in pdf format from the Crossword Club. - June 21, 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
A mere reddish pigment	LAKE
Apparatus of Scotch manufacture destined to be abortive	STILLBORN
Attachment warranted to shatter traditions, nothing less	DISTRAINT
Beautifully got up like a dish at a Borgia feast?	DRESSEDTOKILL
Bereaved widow booked wrongly on a motorway	NAOMI
Brother setting up the old firm in sharp practice	MONKEYBUSINESS
Cheer the XI, a real smasher!	EXHILARATE
Churchman rose about five to six, worked with a shovel	NAVVIED
Circus celebrity has sore back	EROS
Country mansion let by arrangement in Washington	SEATTLE
Dan performed the French number	LENO
Dora set out with a note of anchorage	ROADSTEAD
Explanation supported by a student of building	CONSTRUCTIONAL
Fellow-resident I try to clean out at cards?	NEIGHBOUR
Having the lordly manner of a Greek champion	BYRONIC

Clues	Answers
Italian city named in sea-trip	SIENA
James I offers Sydney a spot of leisure	BONDI
Joins forces in French scene of combat	ENLISTS
Man appears to be right with sale-room turnover	BERTRAM
Messenger sent for a newspaper	COURIER
Music hall — opening for dancing is firm	DISCO
Northern Ireland group in charge of river line as adjusted	NILOTIC
One in a race in Borrows's Lavengro	SLAV
Prime supporter of art	EASEL
Recognizes, say, the smell of tobacco for instance	NOSE
Reverse call	TAILS
The lad died in any case!	ANDY
There was nothing in her closet but a modest gown!	MOTHERHUBBARD
There's a gangster covering Jack's chimney	HOODLUM
Uproar in northern town over a fictional bear	HULLABALOO