The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27243 Crossword Answer

 The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27243 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Most like The Merry Widow being terribly stagey	GAYEST
Oppressive old tyrant leading America	ONEROUS
Outlaw’s unfeeling ring captures northbound travellers	DESPERADO
Peace group requests soldiers possibly to protect brief retreat in quarrel	unpleasantness
Principal substituting old boy for a family man	MOBSTER
Reason males are excluded from rummage around	ARGUE
Rolling fat?	spare tyre
Short cannon’s middle-of-the-road rating	MORTAR
Something ideal for jamming broadcast, in short	CURRANT
Theatrical set, scary in play	ACTRESSY
Trader’s tip diluted small change	TWEAK
Trivial problem to fall between aristocrat and monarch	no-brainer
Unaware of past uprising as some of America is, en masse	AMNESIAC
Vegetable: wrap up portion	SHALLOT
Watched and heard the writer with no hair	EYEBALLED

Clues	Answers
A diet not designed as a remedy	ANTIDOTE
Close to nothing in charity that’s opening	ALMOST
Cold dish using incomplete vessels (below and above water)	SUSHI
Complaint caused by command from detective?	DISORDER
Crack from unknown imbecile	GOOFY
Crop top with short dart in front	HARVEST
Desirable quality in grand name of literary siblings	SITWELL
Gentle champion’s stopping stock conflicts	wars of the roses
Heel’s neighbour caused anger after undressing	ANKLE
I caught summer in Paris on a refresher	ice tea
Jazzy music involving musical sense is promising	SWEARING
Line that stops tongue moving, twisted in knots?	SHOELACE
Man in promise to pay on time shows resolve	iron out
Marshal calm when changing side repeatedly	ARRAY
Men concerned with later life backing part of Mediterranean diet?	OREGANO