The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27440 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27440 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Philatelist ultimately understands stamps	TREADS
Region and former kingdom — it's east of South America	SUSSEX
Returning old pack, tore off a strip and added more	ELABORATED
Rogue trader ballyhoo accompanies always	RACKETEER
Seabird crossing land offshore to find vegetation	tree fern
Some of clergy readers forming circle	GYRE
Tax this writer's column	IMPOST
Treating children terribly, a patricide	PAEDIATRIC
Two couples rejected church's corruption	VICE
Upright object supporting leg	on end
Were pound to plummet, this contract could provide support	LEASE
Woman consumer stopped by force some time later	HEREAFTER
You need time to get to know this fellow	CELLMATE
Young rascal placing bets loses second grand	GAMIN

Clues	Answers
Bitten by sheep, a graduate leaves under wraps	tea bag
Brown beverage to take home from audition	BRUNETTE
Delivery of first Christmas meal, menu having changed	EMMANUEL
Downgrading of French proposal	DEMOTION
Extra information from border not amounting to much	SIDELIGHT
Fifty percent of members bound to participate in this event?	three-legged race
Horrific experience in Black Sea for Caesar	NIGHTMARE
Horse in literature in contortions through pain	WRITHING
I didn't quite catch that dance	excuse-me
Intimate conclusion of plot not revealed	CLOSET
Laundry appliance no good with men's clothing	MANGLE
More than one prime game	FIVES
Officer holding strange belief makes provision for safety aboard	life belt
One squad's short of a pair	ITEM
One-time radical husband attempting to conceal baldness?	WHIG