The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26923 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26923 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Almost engage with wise text	MESSAGE
Arab enemy I shot	YEMENI
Conservative search for gain	CONQUEST
Cooked seafood in hold without oxygen, not with it	old-fashioned
Cut off a bit, like	of a piece
Endless wine is knocked back, boding no good	SINISTER
England regularly failing, dammit	EGAD
Free beer drunk in turn — got it down, not for the first time	RELAID
Fresh out of good books, one may be under one’s feet	INSOLE
Girl comes to a celebration of workers of mine	GALA
Hated being dropped from international match?	DETESTED
In your study, barely noticeable	THREADY
Making possible showy accessories woman put on	ENABLING
Monster deity’s worse, we hear	GODZILLA

Clues	Answers
Old craft has special terminology, but no tips	ARGO
One not going off with European dandy	DUDE
Oriental canoe changes hands, that’s the last you hear	EPILOGUE
Paper in which John played good game	mah-jongg
Pole who has only three fellow employees?	QUARTERSTAFF
Rays steadily caused damage? Not sure yet	its early days
Smoother, crossing hands here to play	rubber bridge
Sorry there’s no proper leader for the paper	ASHAMED
Special one from among a number ceased to exist: one less	INTENDED
The very thing dividing boy and girl is splitting sides?	HILARITY
Took, say, cooker and sank teeth in	HOBBIT
Trouble-making horse, one ladies at hotel backed	HOOLIGAN
Turned up miserable, chilling line in poem	LYCIDAS
Wizened personnel in a sort of garden	SHRUNKEN