The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27341 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27341 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Make up for mistake by Head introducing one	EXPIATE
Nice day for reporting religious leader	MAHDI
Noble exercises for rising when received by exquisite maiden	peer of the realm
Note Universal about to secure bold double act	laurel and hardy
Nuts about old exhibit, sculptor's first	CASHEWS
Open University taking lead on nuclear energy	UNZIP
Shows hosted by Angevin, c'est-à-dire	EVINCES
Small film of chief criminal	FICHE
Tags celebrity, one quitting exercises	NAMEPLATES
Take lead from great boss	UMBO
Tea-time waffle?	CHAT
The details for workers on estate?	MECHANICS
When to pay for past 24 hours of audit?	day of reckoning
Yawned, struggling to eat too much chicken	WYANDOTTE

Clues	Answers
A canine companion I must follow: one impressing audibly	CHIHUAHUA
Bewilderment caused by this 60s rebel doing a U-turn	puzzledom
Bombshell removed from casing for show	EXPO
Crass family, friends and neighbours at the outset turned up	NAFF
Damn charger lifting tail	ACCURSE
Dance, lifting bottom in mock revelation	APOCALYPSE
Death tally rising after hospital goes from a local area?	ENDEMIC
Disaster team stopping to drink	screw-up
Dutch painter has time for second mistake	BOTCH
False report by Brit, maybe doffing cap	SLANDER
General depot, but not housing, developed in Seville cover-up?	orange-peel
Handle collection	autograph album
Love-potion, extremely acidic, taken by Ulstermen off and on	PHILTRE
Lying PC number twenty-two, extremely corrupt	procumbent