The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26848 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26848 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Abandon fight	SCRAP
Bard in region's capital	HOMER
British territory using top foreign currency: yen	crown colony
Catholic in action trashed drug	NARCOTIC
Climber wants sweetheart to care for	HONEYSUCKLE
Cook uses hands to provide protection from heat	SUNSHADES
Curry, possibly fish, with minimum of rice	SKATER
Device for stopping strike	TAP
Disconcerting seaman holds officer up	RATTLING
Doctor west of desert heading off light rain	DRIZZLE
Drinks, say, containing trace of natural stimulant	GINSENG
Furious criminal KO'ing one copper?	RUFOUS
Group in department ran chemistry block	TRANCHE
Increasingly sexy queen more accessible when husband's away..	RANDIER
Intelligence — something parents pass on, mostly	GEN
Intricate craft displayed in novel Eliot penned	NEEDLEPOINT

Clues	Answers
Love mate to accept credit with king out of sight	OPTICAL
Means of accommodating baby's exuberant conduct?	high chair
Nothing close up to tear	ZIP
Orator's prosecuted for fraud	PSEUD
Outstanding rhetoric in support of underground system?	PROTUBERANT
Pernicious decree slashing French wine output, ultimately	VIRULENT
Rats count on dogs being heard	TELLTALES
Regularly launch into tunneller's underground entrance	MANHOLE
Rode briskly round lake, keeping horse restrained	THROTTLED
Short drinkers may relish this distorted sound	RYE
Some not in US army, maybe, returning to claim benefits?	sign on
Some of our ancestors, needing exercise, agreed to box	APEMEN
Spread from union journal kept back	GAMUT
Theory from revolutionary Frenchman with half a dozen sheep?	MARXISM
Where pupils get together a learner's relaxed	INFORMAL
Wretched idler not pruning old bit of plant	TENDRIL