The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27038 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27038 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Hut for redeveloping, just missing out on a medal?	FOURTH
I called, worried to discover old political scandal	IRANGATE
Kind of theatre seat, note, next to small dog	tip-up
Lives overturned by Soviet police chief in gulag setting	SIBERIA
Louis XIV, laid low at home with gout at first	sun king
Makes a few phone calls after race: that’s easily best	run rings round
Much power in performance tailed away, time after time	GIGAWATT
Sanctimonious group’s conduct	PILOT
Small tear maybe in work permit found on drive	DROPLET
Sort of noble word ultimately preferred by gentlemen?	BLONDE
Sort of shift from place that druggie’s around	DOPPLER
Steadfast and united, mark well, before finale	UNBENDING
Tiny weight of messengers dressed up as elderly relatives?	nanograms
Two common sources of allergy in China once	CATHAY
Waiter’s assistant initially should be ordered to block purchase	BUSBOY

Clues	Answers
A halfwit or two seen around start of period	IDIOT
A little mischief by lassoer is unseemly	IMPROPER
Angling: so unusual an activity for joining in	SINGALONG
Art gallery having trouble with public relations	PRADO
Bar that’s fashionable acquired	INGOT
Be apparently unwilling to see obscure piece of theatre?	play hard to get
Certain ears, or part of one, catching second bit of music	DURUM
Chaplain is sorry for holding composer back	ROSSINI
Divine being in chase: departs New York at speed!	wood nymph
Dreamed of aged mini being restored	IMAGINED
Extract bribe, perhaps, swapping parts around	palm oil
Foot odour spreading in the open air	out-of-door
Gangster fooled gal, disgracefully	goodfella
General Secretary, steeped in compassion, finding place for Wilbur?	PIGSTY
House seen in vacation can be filmed another time	RESHOT