The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27080 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27080 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Nice of Civil Service hosts to hold forth medals	DECORATES
Not the women’s singles title at Roland Garros?	MADAME
Old film technique from USSR, heading off endless cash grabs	movietone
Old people off home to reflect	ICENI
Old Turkish sailor, short virile one	OSMANLI
Promote any number of us, sort of	NOURISH
Role was out mainly in the garden	PARTERRE
Secure — in hair-raising fashion?	lock up
Solicitor at Law with facility for speaking disreputably	SLEAZILY
Succulent duck put in stews: ace!	OPUNTIA
Supply long, trailing cape	CACHE
Timid chap trapping a couple of bees with slipper, worn but posh	shabby-genteel
Two identical switches on top of wall light	lattice window
With warm honey, set about a sort of loaf	WHEATMEAL

Clues	Answers
Aces concealed in shirt seams put back	MAESTRI
Agent X following stuff on phone	PHILBY
Civic dignitary dressing right	MAYOR
Creature cayman bit on toe oddly disappeared	AMNIOTE
Enter the champion: a trusted opener	KEYHOLDER
Expert putting up tumble drier as ordered	master builder
Feeling happy no more, evidently flipped	UPENDED
Finish on the tiles after Greek jaunt	GROUTING
I love not being separated	in one
Issues with hose used by firemen?	LADDERS
It makes us cross, what short-term personnel go through?	revolving door
Like lubricated gear, maybe, when in neutral	GREASY
Maybe gets breeze in prime location for climbing	AERATES
Maybe miss one meal, shifting tea breaks	michaela