The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27499 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27499 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Principle that is engaging Democrat most of all	IDEAL
Regarding length over Scottish course? Excellent for run	relay-race
Right to run away?	LEGIT
Small missile making a loud noise	STRIDENT
Something you shouldn’t attempt when prepared to save face	a mugs game
Start of spring with a chill in Mediterranean location	SICILY
Suggestive behaviour, maybe, with French kept in proportion	vulgar fraction
Support I’ll back, beset by endless stress	TRELLIS
This obliges fellow in good shape to spurn hospitals	FEALTY
Utterly wrong about article offering protection	TUTELARY
Way the world won’t end: in a catastrophe, finally	AVENUE
Weaponry: clubs, historic — a bargain, we hear	cold steel
What’ll be anodyne news, I’d fancy, around end of year?	nine days wonder
Wild financier finally not in favour of investing in soccer team	FRANTIC
Writer almost prepared to accept plagiarism	SCRIBE

Clues	Answers
“Reduced Beauty Treatment” covering small shop sign	FASCIA
A very regular writer, skipping intro, may be a cagey type	AVIARIST
All steroids in sport? Incompatible	ill-assorted
Army doctor has done with cut	DROVE
Band to adorn recording system	tape deck
Dance, taking lead in balletic work	BOP
Essential one Conservative supports party, mostly	BASIC
Exhaust American power restraining group of countries	use up
Foreign areas sadly kept back in recording meal option	Caesar salad
Good performance at golf — a delight, moving last to first	EAGLE
Heavenly room accommodating one in fancy seat	CELESTIAL
Hitch? Then fix web image	THUMBNAIL
Impress after releasing singular song	LAY
Lack of enthusiasm for one heading off around track	APATHY
Old fogey to rage about source of expensive body spray	DEODORANT