The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27399 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27399 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Profitable business’s general condition leading to worry	going concern
Pundit’s second childhood, for one	SAGE
Put down sums for models	lay figures
Rigorous limit avoided by engineers	STRICT
Rise briefly over ocean, leaving river and coming to a high point	CLIMACTIC
Shelter in squalid place, from such weather?	SLEETY
Stole what diner may leave with dog?	TIPPET
Take notice? No point	ADOPT
Teach recruit badly; it’s a fine art	ARCHITECTURE
Tropical plant not fully bedded down	EDDO
Unlimited confidence in primordial bird	FIRECREST
Will’s lost unpaid work	labour of love
With drink man would take food at hotel without ever letting up	to the death
Woman and writer go off to marry	PENELOPE

Clues	Answers
A number of families from America turned back at frontier	SUBORDER
A pound in bank: are you sure?	REALLY
Better to conceal one’s made up	IMPROVISED
Brown and black farm animal, sweetly pretty	chocolate-box
Deliberately forward contract, work being held up	on purpose
Full of noise, harangue in support of county match	COORDINATE
Gather urgent request needs time	PLEAT
Gold edging for English jacket	GILET
Grass is needed by horse, I swear it?	OATH
I’d forget to recycle sack	get rid of
Liberal, like some public houses	FREE
Old copper in standard valve	STOPCOCK
One hard poet translated is Paris prizewinner	APHRODITE
One to be taken by the force?	THIEF