The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27079 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27079 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Novel, fateful time for Julius Caesar?	MIDDLEMARCH
Offensive and frosty-sounding, speaking thus?	tetchily
Old surgeon — successful one, presumably — less well-known	OBSCURER
One lives on alcoholic drink, reportedly	RESIDER
One place to sleep at foot of hill in Spanish resort	BENIDORM
Opens containers filled with eggs, oddly	BEGINS
Outcast going back into fresh air apparently	PARIAH
Price of fuel cut	FEE
Quick drink before road trip starts	ALERT
Rowdy players getting plastered	ROUGHCAST
Severe wound identified in A & E	ACUTE
Sickly-looking child's coat	PALETOT
Tabloid journalist coming in right before work	REDTOP
That girl's dazzled … by such illumination?	STARLIGHT
Unhealthy male in grip of unusual malady at last	RHEUMY
Was getting advice about cutting tool	PITSAW

Clues	Answers
60s' film hero visiting hostile mining area	COALFIELD
American going through two states to find, say, Oklahoma!	MUSICAL
Attacker drops new weapon	LUGER
Close — and quickly — after turning key, storage facility at bank	night safe
Computer in 2001 revealed what's 75% of 50%	HAL
Democrat and Republican etc make it, somehow?	dream ticket
Egg, one with top sliced off	NIT
Fail to achieve target, as nostalgic German banker might?	miss the mark
Fed Midlands community on upside-down pudding	stoked up
Fellow reduced rent for holiday accommodation	CHALET
Finish school, having gap year before attending university?	break up
Growth of one singing French version of She?	CHANTERELLE
Half the people on earth smell	HUM
Higher gear, zigzagging across motorway	GAMIER
Male name given with some hesitation	callum
Music sent up in Brussels concert?	GIGUE