The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27404 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27404 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Meagre dinner though not badly cooked	thin on the ground
Metrical patterns in book one French friend carries	IAMBI
Minimal information about English female in suit	BEFIT
One to depart this world like man strapped in tight?	ASTRONAUT
Pawn courts one escaping wealthy tribal leader	PATRIARCH
Pet having to tolerate an arboreal creature	honey bear
Policy statement complicated by means of it?	MANIFESTO
Repeatedly thanks plumber, finally turning taps	rat-a-tat
Siamese location on main line	seal-point
Some drivel in edition with ruling	LINED
Sorted how to contain area round burning bush	WAHOO
Strip staff member giving support in tent	RIDGEPOLE
University student is clear to return gadget	UTENSIL
Wasted the bacon sandwiches one cut	AITCHBONE
Wearing but a smile as fitness keeps love secure in Bury	in the altogether

Clues	Answers
500 on ship wear formal clothes	DRESS
Actor finally in cast gets smallest part	SHRED
Broccoli in clear base that's reconstituted	CALABRESE
Brutal Scotsman masking new and unpleasant whiff	INHUMAN
Clear to me, suffering, one gets there eventually?	LATECOMER
Cloth Asians wrap around copper piping inside	DHOTI
Day needed to bottle Irish rum	WEIRD
Duke in hat to see señorita's wiggle	TILDE
Exploit ambassadors, visibly embarrassed having got down	FEATHERED
Faculty has objective bringing in Liberal	FLAIR
Fool around, producing explosive component	NITRE
Green specialist in City loves squeezing large marrow	ECOLOGIST
Heard tropical disease is for the solver to deal with?	YOURS
Improve gag about old uniform	RETOUCH
Made inedible with teeth, all at first tucking in	DENATURED