The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27329 crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27329 crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Minstrel with a pipe returned at end of dance	BALLADEER
One particular man's on time	THIS
Periodic losses suffered by skilled young swimmers	SILD
Piggy grabbing wine and hot snack	TOASTIE
Poet's material going west	ELIOT
Reverend sat uneasily after fellow's precise testimony	chapter and verse
Revolutionary Indian instrument good for nothing	GRATIS
Seasonal meat cut with force at sea?	VERNAL
Sour red fruit, not quite ripe but golden inside	MORELLO
Specialised troops practise counterattack?	REPLY
Statesman's amended style of delivery	new yorker
Swapping hands, put down part of spur	ROWEL
Unknown insurgent worried Spartan character	ZETA
Up before court	ERECT
Wordsmith shot, craftsman runs away	DRAMATIST

Clues	Answers
A vision of loveliness as I moved to end of quay	PERI
Always keeping dry, he looked over, poised for action	at the ready
Architect initially welcomes housing staff's contracts	AGREEMENTS
Bowdlerise 'pure' novel, wherein kiss has suggestion of scandal?	EXPURGATE
Charming chum treated roughly	pretty much
Condensed, as a walk in the park should be?	made short work of
Contributor to soap showing everyone in drag	TALLOW
Cook talented with cephalopods, primarily like squid	TENTACLED
Current Lothario back on song	AIRFLOW
Dessert's without charge, then?	AFTERWARDS
Doctor's check after fish has been brought up	LEECH
Golf organised, diversion avoiding key educational trip	grand tour
Knight's advance across wide area	GAWAIN
Magnanimous knight served up joint, with wife away	NOBLE
Met secretly to destroy jockeys, with all love lost	TRYSTED