The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26768 - July 4, 2017 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26768 - July 4, 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Alumni better out of sight?	OBSCURED
As bill passed on involving millions, this certainly ....?	COSTABOMB
Broken rubber in many bits of some value	BINARYNUMBER
Desire this so-called lustre, etc — a ruby possesses it	STREETCAR
Drama queen visiting much of Europe and America	EQUUS
European poet's kind, touching hosts	RILKE
Fail to lift trophy? Pretend not to notice	DRAWABLANK
Footballer outstanding at the back, awfully like a rock	GOALKICKER
Foreign girl having legs round but short	ASTRID
Fur freak feeling rejected	NUTRIA
Heroine of rank an inane article rubbished	ANNAKARENINA
Home again by tea time bringing sauce	BACKCHAT
Hope for one's changes to be made by sexton?	BOBS
Jack beams when picked up	RAISE

Clues	Answers
Northern town where a county council cut mobile phone signal	ACCRINGTON
One shelled out to get a printer?	TERRAPIN
One that would catch pillow talk perhaps, after your blood?	BEDBUG
Page Three, perhaps, right to be hidden from vicar	RECTO
Presumably thin sailor left in house, puzzling	UNFATHOMABLE
Romantic chap going out with Doris	RHAPSODIC
Sentence that could be long? Therefore no good tweeting	BIRDSONG
Sir comes in tired: check for purpose-built seat?	WORKBENCH
Sting mouth: a hazard of course	TRAP
Support for constitutional edict backed: ruler to remain	WALKINGSTICK
We hear boy's going to a best friend's place	KENNEL
What we pay pub to host European party: a figure to toy with	BARBIEDOLL
Where couple covered up for PM once	EDEN
Wind and cold where surfers go?	CURL