The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26950 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26950 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Harry Basset, perhaps	HOUND
He arranged some rags and boots with ends missing	ELLINGTON
Head off lame evildoer’s first trespass	IMPINGE
Invited to accept golf club’s proof of membership?	BADGE
Marshal Pétain trapping peacekeepers before noon with sea power?	NEPTUNIAN
One unlikely to win a race with dimwitted trainer	SLOWCOACH
Pacific nation’s gold in new version of rugby	NAURU
Primrose’s cousin is over 40 and flipping sanctimonious	OXLIP
Some terrific screenwriters around in this genre	sci-fi
Stumbling briefly, hooking drive, making bogey	HOBGOBLIN
US storyteller Remus, perhaps, penning author’s introduction	TWAIN
Vile edict is farcical to wit	VIDELICET
Witches on short mission to seal husband in cooking pot	dutch oven
Worried about group of farmers splitting up communal resource in quantity	DESSERTSPOONFUL
You dated visiting lecturer, a Senior Fellow	DOYEN

Clues	Answers
A small amount of tin securing knight’s chain	APENNINES
Artistic Italian waterway and Latin quarter of Sorrento	CANALETTO
Backed commercial corporation in fact	DATUM
Bird hit high in the air by large vessel	SKYLARK
Brand awareness to convey coherent message	make sense
Broadcast a child-friendly Q&A about tanks	AQUARIA
Busted a suspect with hand on drug? Could be this	open-and-shut case
Cast? That’s supporting cast	SLING
Climbing high mountain surrounded by prairie	PLAIN
Connoisseur seizing fashionable gnome	FINANCIER
Cool, informed female designer making comeback	SANGFROID
Craft fine cryptic clue, more or less	FELUCCA
Cut down on binding agent?	GLUON
Esoteric worship suppressing New England possession	OWNERSHIP
Ghastly covers of Lou Reed, including a single	LURID