The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26533 - October 3, 2016 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26533 - October 3, 2016 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Abandon one's restraint, lowering level of shock?	LETONESHAIRDOWN
African region Pooh's friend volunteers to enter?	KATANGA
Capital, time and energy invested in second new film	MONTEVIDEO
Capricious canon turned up, embracing a chap thus?	WHIMSICAL
Chap that is touring East, a small-minded person	MEANIE
Current way a lot of papers are assembled	STREAM
Deliberately avoid military command	SHUN
Displaying arrogance in the saddle? Shame!	UPPITY
Eating-place composer avoids in hospital by river	CHOPHOUSE
Equivalent to apprentice initially feeding lightish brown horse	TANTAMOUNT
Fellow caught with alcoholic drink	ALEC
Forces in the north jazzing up Fats Waller?	WATERFALLS
Girl securing poster, perhaps, in church school	ACADEMY
Impulse providing money for England's opener in cricket, say?	INSTINCT
Increase cost of lengthy walk	HIKE

Clues	Answers
Issue over supporting drama: most children enjoy it	PLAYTIME
Like little Dorrit developing extremes of unwonted lethargy	DAUGHTERLY
Man or woman in the past climbing in a S American region	PATAGONIA
One who mesmerises pythons, it turns out	HYPNOTIST
Oversight of old girl no one recalled	OMISSION
Party's peculiar office	FUNCTION
People not ordained to keep wine in place?	LAITY
Ring back about electric current serving plant	LILAC
Rooster in cave painting originally bedecked in red dye?	OILBIRD
Strident cry from marine mammal? Without question	SQUEAL
Time to leave street party: it's getting noisier	CRESCENDO
Try out posh fleece — it protected Roman soldiers	TESTUDO
Welcome Society to Tyneside, provoking a bit of a storm?	HAILSTONE
Woman's twelve months in Massachusetts	MYRA