The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26351 - March 4, 2016 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26351 - March 4, 2016 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
A position the indolent took for eating	LOTUS
Affected by contents of gallery, supposing functionary's kicked off	ARTIFICIAL
After temperature's dropped, insert synthetic polymer	RESIN
Ancient Scottish cauldron's contents	AULD
Believer in spirits taken up in a cloud of steam	ANIMIST
Bit he chucked into pool that held tax receipts	TITHEBARN
Cock robin's head, eyes, and most of back	ROOSTER
Composer's endlessly clean, spartan accommodation	PURCELL
Country that is kept in its place by Russian banks	RURAL
Deer has one tongue	HINDI
Fierce beast, one disabled without its tail	CROC
Force long underground, initially to be confused with reserve?	TERRACOTTAARMY
He sits on cases, needing my power ultimately to close one	CORONER
Horse's messy saddle put into cold washing solution	CLYDESDALE

Clues	Answers
It's a question about pop	HOWSYOURFATHER
Killer in film avoiding northern city	WORCESTER
No pseudonym that should be spelled with a capital	PROPERNAME
One giving time to warn at intervals about leading element of enemy?	WATCHTOWER
Plug connecting to a different port?	ADAPTOR
Policy to cover on the inside	LINE
Rescue from drowning one in unfamiliar element	FISHOUTOFWATER
Roof support is stone, for power	PITPROP
So unruly, one misbehaves with disastrous consequences	RUINOUSLY
Sounding more complaining after new infection	PNEUMONIA
Speaker's to wallow in this part	ROLE
Survey of artistic period covering up deception	RECONNAISSANCE
Tree: preserving one is deliberate	CONIFER
Went as a body to move abroad, receiving nothing in return	TROOPED