The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 973 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 973 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Abstainer penning little message	TWEET
Cake in historic Scottish location	SCONE
Cautious cleaning lady ultimately busy	CHARY
Charitable donations cut on old street? Very nearly	ALMOST
Difference of opinion admitted by the German wanderer	DRIFTER
Difficult retreating in rich silk city	TICKLISH
Extraordinarily call sit-in for small thing	SCINTILLA
Greeting upset mother unfortunately	SALAAM
Left-winger isn’t last I upset	STALINIST
Money kidnapper demands after time that’s found in ship	TRANSOM
No longer asleep — needing a wash?	AWAKE
Note two dukes, indeed twelve	MIDDAY
One’s particular responsibility for bird	PIGEON

Clues	Answers
Policy to retain age of certain popes	LEONINE
Red coat fashioned in 1930s style	art deco
Right to speak, for example	SAY
Selects deal organised for tourist attraction	leeds castle
Sisters here in turn, one early regularly	NUNNERY
Sober and sedate way to help	STAID
Some order van fuel	DERV
Stupid, like idiot’s opening figure	ASININE
Tense, gave instruction in speech	TAUT
Unwilling to spend, nicking artist’s fish?	sting-ray
With one’s own enthusiastic Romeo, first of all — this one?	WOOER
Wolves’ first home victory	WIN
Wrong from the start?	original sin