The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1562 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1562 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
English tutors somehow getting fatter	STOUTER
Half of tour party making a fuss	to-do
I hear it’s possibly the most dangerous	HAIRIEST
Kidnapped a British editor on Tube	ABDUCTED
Model office worker keeping you waiting?	TEMPLATE
Oddly edgy on ship’s departure	EGRESS
One running out of clothes?	STREAKER
Sit back, holding ambassador’s paper	THESIS
There’s no getting around it — I’m old-fashioned	IMPASSE
Two chaps having a laugh?	he-he
Unapproachable station controller?	REMOTE
Where koala may be in a bit of bother?	up a gum tree
Where to find cobbler in the end?	at last

Clues	Answers
A pigeon for a poet?	HOMER
Aggressively male chairman embracing companion	MACHO
Arrest of chap from Prague announced	CHECK
Article on a criminal is cut	LACERATION
Bathrobe serving to conceal fat?	OBESE
Be responsible for poetry in Old English	OVERSEE
Boring nun made to dance	MUNDANE
Bossy young girl running up and down	MADAM
Coach fixing the race?	TEACHER
Consent to old beast of burden turning back	OKAY
Conservative type, as queen’s husband is?	CONSORT
Die, as one with laryngitis might?	CROAK
Duke Ellington exposes bottom	KEEL