The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1274 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1274 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Look hard, did you say, for step?	STAIR
New butler admitting old problem	TROUBLE
Remove some platter, as empty	ERASE
Rush, healthy plant	SPEEDWELL
Sense change so near	REASON
Serious accent	GRAVE
Sheep eating last bits of the wiriest horse's hair	FETLOCK
Snatch forty winks beside youth	KIDNAP
Southern mountain most steep	SEVEREST
Sportingly, where one would be putting colour	GREEN
Unpredictable seat won with ease	no sweat
Unusual way to serve steak	RARE
Whale in horror, caught	ORC

Clues	Answers
A race isn't terribly bigoted	SECTARIAN
Aircraft ugly, did you say?	PLANE
Airmen bombed a country	ARMENIA
Bacterium having arisen, discards scraps	GUBBINS
Before disaster, switch footwear	flip-flop
Biblical character in short, Abraham's able child, originally	ISAAC
Choose one colour, primarily, for drinks dispenser	OPTIC
Extraordinary pearl is close, phenomenal sight	solar eclipse
Fantasist in daughter, back to embrace me	DREAMER
Find small amount	TRACE
Gold initially like hydrogen, say?	GAS
Highly excited in the past, disappointing ultimately	AGOG
Liberated status unsupported	FREESTANDING