The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27442 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27442 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Mother holds hand at length after firm pledge	COMMITTAL
Norman’s successor Henry is generally eccentric	early english
One resisting work has a problem	OPPOSER
Place of exile is backed by head of secret police	SIBERIA
Presumably not “stick” of furniture?	MOVABLE
Quietly take exception to what one’s given	PRESENT
Regularly mean with money contributed to farewell card	VALENTINE
Run through ceremony in each country	ERITREA
Sacred object in half of Islam, say? Christianity, primarily	RELIC
Slowly develop, say, upset condition	GESTATE
Stiff manner is singular, taking in sort of film	ICINESS
The Devil not good in graveyards, dancing	ADVERSARY
Vicar, one ladies turned to for dramatic entertainment: that’s not new	REVIVAL
With a huge pot and medals at end of race	OBESE

Clues	Answers
A fragile construction, so UFO crashed on the rocks	house of cards
A fresh set of hands making US policy	new deal
Bohemian needing some pictures met an artist	SMETANA
Check through newspaper reports — of Cinderella?	rags-to-riches
Chief with new bird	CAPON
Facing down, put in large cover	COWLING
Former spinner almost scores four	seventy-eight
Full pelt, running through endless grass	REPLETE
Function of bank not so obscure	CLEARER
Her target, man to abuse?	TERMAGANT
Holding volume, in Irish, upside down	INVERSE
Inclined to have answer in forty days	LEANT
Inside vehicle, tie mutilated animal	crop-ear
Like a Pope’s pedigree, covering a long time	LEONINE