The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27219 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27219 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Neighbourhood watch, roughly fifty	LOCAL
Old animal droppings gathered by a single lecturer	IGUANODON
Old statesman will overcome manoeuvring involving right and left	oliver cromwell
One dealing with odds and sods?	turf accountant
Pan grouse, Sunday staple?	roast beef
Plant border of Hereford?	COWSLIP
Rankers maybe fly spacecraft	ORBITER
Secure show that’s ignored by source of 20	WINEPRESS
Sporting events contribute this little colour	TINGE
Swimmer’s revolutionary hairstyle	red mullet
The smallest stick it out to conserve energy	LEAST
Tie in league, avoiding own goal	TETHER
Try short rivet that's penetrating	TRENCHANT
Two degrees? One might do for you in Africa	MAMBA
Without reason, happen to limit excitement leading up to congress?	BRUTE

Clues	Answers
Character from Plato’s mostly lame answer	GAMMA
County town primarily in Bordeaux	CLARET
Deep gesture of respect for weapon	LONGBOW
Demolish what's next to apartment No 9?	FLATTEN
Doctor agrees to retain the empty, least costly beds	STEERAGE
Extract of tree sucker pushed back by tongue	gum arabic
Fancy paella, top included, with no accompaniment	a cappella
First bars of tango found in ornamental box	INTRO
Fruit tree I neglected is about to fall back	RELAPSE
It helps helmsman manage after risks leaving loch	PERISCOPE
It's said on leaving two thirds of Brie, say, and port	CHEERIO
Job a disaster: a measure of PC’s performance?	GIGAFLOP
More old paintings recalled	EXTRA
Name? It's rejected during recess by bishop	BAPTISE
Nasty whiff of acid from bark reportedly associated with plants	BOTANIC