The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26787 - July 26, 2017 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26787 - July 26, 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"Flower of Asia" composer shortly to be given a place with artist	BRAHMAPUTRA
A producer of mop's organised solution to water in home	DAMPPROOFCOURSE
Agent facing death, clutching note, felt remorse	REPENTED
Behaved like Lear, king getting senile?	RAGED
Causes of disease? Rodents mostly, with certain habits	MICROBES
Diplomat accused by a female is trembling with fear	CHARGEDAFFAIRES
Edible plant, cold, Greek character included in set	RADICCHIO
Fall back drunk, having swapped hands twice	REGRESS
Gapes at boy after defensive blunder	OGLES
House outside French city with any number of spongers?	HANGERSON
Importance of what sounds like a demand for patience	WEIGHT
Material is stony substance containing small hole	CORPOREAL
Model going to America establishes position	SITUS
Name of old politician in the neighbourhood being heard	NYE
Nothing left at home has turned up	NIL

Clues	Answers
Offer short work couched in dull language	PROPOSE
One offers refreshments — drop round twice maybe at first	TEAROOM
Pagan god in charge creates alarm	PANIC
Party getting sluggish, not quite all there?	DOTARD
Peer astride entrance to Lords in coat	GLAZE
Perennial in garden, big or tiddly	RAGGEDROBIN
Prayer editor put into anthology?	COLLECTED
Prison punished and kept in cell?	CONFINED
Sally secures shelter to have an extended rest	SLEEPIN
Seawater flooding the east coast resort	SOUTHEND
Soldiers attached to section making round trip	ORBIT
Spend time reconstructing architectural features	PEDIMENTS
Tot needs meal reduced by half — makes sense	ADDSUP
Two bones containing a number of biological components	RIBOSOMES
Where hair finishes being untidy, needing to be cut	SCRUFF