The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1526 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1526 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Note lithe mountaineer	CLIMBER
Officiate live, following pressure	PRESIDE
Popular commercial with gent missing good chance?	INADVERTENT
Professional baritone upset one being tried out	PROBATIONER
Require time during unusual dissection of alien	ENTAIL
Sons press for big increase	SURGE
Subject to go for mostly	TOPIC
Take another look at American’s 100% overpayment	double-check
The woman Basil cut short?	HER
Twisting in roots is unusual	TORSION
What’s in tea tent — to be this?	EATEN
Who works on toes held by footballer in agony	BALLERINA

Clues	Answers
A change of insides — ref is on top of it	REFIT
Avoiding alcohol, having gone without can	ABSTINENT
Bad to rent — bad	ROTTEN
Caedmon’s central character in Old English verse	ODE
Clear I’d got wrapped up in incident	EVIDENT
Fantastic being regularly well-off	ELF
Flower spread gets trophy	BUTTERCUP
Friend in the US, one not yet out	BUD
Get into American’s heart, not cold	ENTER
Hasty and careless entry for cup goes adrift	PERFUNCTORY
Important for pit not to be empty	PROMINENT
Meat for haggis, perhaps no longer fresh — a pound	OFFAL