The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27004 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27004 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Good question by French female, briefly a writer	GASKELL
Island folk pursued by dangerous sea creature	MENORCA
Like a killer’s single crime initially featured in magazine	ARSENICAL
Like indigenous houses	DIG
Maybe pensioner could drive, taking regular breaks	OLDIE
One giving needle or gas?	JABBER
One sorry about daughter becoming less civil	RUDER
One way to cook food, grand with pepper	GRIDDLE
One who’s generous with fellow men	DONOR
Performers discovered unknown operatic intros	DUO
Piano piece, opening in short musical entertainment	BAGATELLE
Playwright having drink with performer missing start of rehearsal	DRAMATIST
Repeatedly mentioning computers etc given low grading?	ITERATING
Stop limping	HALT
Unkempt beards are, if not kept in check	free as a bird
Youngster tailed by one clever old commander	chiliarch

Clues	Answers
Amassed a fortune, as Oppenheimer's team did	made a bomb
Amassing newfangled sources of power	gas mains
Animal, possibly from Bangkok, extinct, reportedly	TIGON
Attendants in hospital department nowadays?	ENTOURAGE
Be leader in fashion with Italian suit	BEFIT
Brass over edge of porthole on old sailing vessel	GALLEON
Crampon primarily used by supple mountaineer	CLIMBER
Degree question university set in extremely simple language	BASQUE
Dirty farm building, with nothing moved inside	SOIL
Disturbed wild gelding	NIGGLED
End of journey from foreign terminal, skirting Iran's borders	DESTINATION
Enticed up-and-coming dandies around city	SEDUCED
Everything in trial is unbelievable in the extreme	TALLEST
Flaps, performing in a role at start of show	AILERONS
Gives to heirs with no difficulty	hands down
Gong finally sounded, interrupting dinner, say	MEDAL