The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1564 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1564 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Party time for little Dorothy	DOT
Posh car with learner driver, in my opinion	LIMO
Preacher to lapse terribly	APOSTLE
Prepare to shoot excellent Frenchman	AIM
Punch a friend	CHINA
Sailors love convoluted excuse	ABSOLVE
See exercises for extended stride	LOPE
Stab from Romeo in drama	PIERCE
Sterilised wound looking neat	clean-cut
Stickler enraged and in bad mood	PEDANT
White magic involving couple	ITEM
Wine: like it to be knocked back	ASTI
Woman had an outhouse	SHED

Clues	Answers
Actor, inept, has to be sacked	THESPIAN
Approaches snooker table but loses form?	goes to pot
Casual worker behind schedule establishes pattern	TEMPLATE
Composer drops in for meat slice	CHOP
Court that condemned murderer	cut-throat
Deadlock that is about fool supporting MP	IMPASSE
Digs in snow and ice?	IGLOO
English man raised in Dodge	EVADE
Flood defence breached by Norse god	PLETHORA
Heart-throb in bed generates smoke	CHEROOT
Monitoring body observe and follow closely	watch-dog
Number close enough?	LOCAL
One having pension in the Loire, moving	HOTELIER