The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26344 - February 25, 2016 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26344 - February 25, 2016 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Agent — one originally boosting every Aussie holiday venue	BONDIBEACH
Arthur's wife, always welcomed by most of country	GUINEVERE
Character abroad fencing in wild beast	RHINO
Charge that is brought about medic at university?	IMBUE
Cleaner endlessly serving parliament	DAIL
Cloth cap suffering rat bite?	BIRETTA
Composer I found in church with right lighting fixture	CHANDELIER
Current political leader set up as mischief-maker	IMP
Eccentric chap's description of pre-Ordovician Wales?	CAMBRIAN
Eg Hammerstein's very large estate?	OSCAR
Exercise nurse finally picking up rubbish, say, in ward	PROTEGEE
Green hill accommodating third of prehistoric bones	VERTEBRAE
Hairstyle primarily adhered to? The opposite	AFRO
Heartless about arresting party workers? Shame!	ABASHMENT
Hesitant exhortation starting race, therefore?	ERGO
In greener resort, see person getting own back	REVENGER

Clues	Answers
Initially feeling overwhelmed, English girl ups and leaves	FOLIAGE
Island group gathers cricket side — it's pressing!	IRONING
Lazy type's song embracing several different keys	LIEABED
Like some courts putting a case together	ATRIAL
Loose cash bishop invested in beer: not always the same	CHANGEABLE
Name a new type of slightly leavened bread	NAN
Party in lead is Conservative	DISCO
People who moan about trendy TV programmes?	MINISERIES
Report of type searched for	SOUGHT
Ride fast, going away at first — then head back	GALLOP
Surplus the unstable may lose before fall	BALANCE
The present writer's aim to start with something like chicory	ENDIVE
Tudor composer, and how he travelled from London to Lincoln?	BYRD
Warbler taking breather under cape — or above	GOLDCREST
What a druggy may smoke in front of this northern plant	TREEFERN