The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26426 - May 31, 2016 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26426 - May 31, 2016 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
7 works avoiding extremes	ACTOR
Conservative party, needing billions, will back a rate increase	ACCELERATION
Cross about flipping fool taking precedence	TIGON
Definitely not what inactive pupils want on timetable?	NOPE
Difficult to comprehend Bengali translation by, for example, Cambridge graduate	UNIMAGINABLE
Expert at court regularly defending scoundrel?	PROCURATOR
Extremely short trips around the French palace	VERSAILLES
Fish found beneath small rock	SHAKE
Flamboyantly-dressed trader in city once stocking top-quality line?	PEARLYKING
Former statesman's to agitate briefly with South American, reportedly	CHURCHILLIAN
Free ecstasy? That's wrong, I judge	EXONERATE
Fruit crumbled onto crackers	GROUNDNUTS
Just one dropping round for card game	FARO
Keen soldier in WW1 battlefield?	TRENCHANT

Clues	Answers
Literary collection about Maine, Rhode Island and California?	AMERICANA
Material helping make igloo warm up	WOOL
Old weapon found under settee is loaded just at the front	FUSIL
Page taken by Listener advertisement	PLUG
Places I pass, heading north	LOCI
Property tax introduced by a Trotskyist leader	ATTRIBUTE
Roster assembled for visiting island?	MUSTERROLL
Sell leather	FLOG
Top performer managed first of lines in plays	LEADINGMAN
Triplets oddly seen in bank	TILT
TV personality about to be seen in new westerns	NEWSCASTER
Very much concerned with knee, perhaps, during exercise	PARTICULARLY
Watch safari participant who's not fully committed?	HALFHUNTER
Welsh runner providing sustenance for baby?	RUSK