The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27261 Crossword Answer

 The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27261 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Garment frequently dropping off, could one say?	NAPPY
Goes on green after driving off?	PUTTS
Hard toenails troubled one in the shower	HAILSTONE
Indian title of book one’s holding back	SAHIB
Mature person, hiding the grey, to be honest	own up
Member greatly respected long after the event?	DOYEN
Miss warning put out on air	SIGNORINA
Popular verse about teacher got top press billing	hit the headlines
Runner who must find way round rotten tree in race, gutted	ORIENTEER
Shrink with a vocation causing mayhem	HAVOC
State prosecutor getting tabloid coverage	SUDAN
Suffering: force for good later in composer	GRIEF
Superior fruitcake boy’s kept to himself?	Unuttered
Tinned meat from cow — and grouse	bully beef
Was bothered by volume having increasingly narrow endpiece	pintailed

Clues	Answers
... but if south-facing, becoming much brighter	UNLIT
A note in which a managing director’s put up someone for promotion	ADMAN
A number of volunteers, note, commanded army?	TENTACLED
A sweet accompaniment with dance, almost complete	rum butter
Agent who gets back from sultanate with traveller	repo man
Alternative cure handy for major complaint	hue and cry
American hosts cool, reclining in mess as usual	SNAFU
Big felines getting in step I am thinking	PUMAS
Count on supervised girl being of high intellect?	noble-mindedness
Demanding one stops person having sex change?	EXIGENT
Displaying craft gift not enough?	UNDERHAND
Dog, as it happens, getting back on couch	BEDEVIL
Feeble old man, by Thursday at home	paper-thin
Football team with mass appeal deliver	MANUMIT
Freshness augmented by a brother’s flavouring	SASSAFRAS