The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27285 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27285 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Old still can be this good, but not fine	GRAINY
One very dead strand	ISOLATE
Potter stars rush around, keeping track	NURSERYMAN
Producer of evergreen staple song retired	pine nut
Protest as daughter gets posted	DISSENT
Rocky pile of Irish tin boxes	CAIRN
Sea mist masks no good planes here	HANGAR
Secure temporary container for lighter, say	LOCK
Silver was thus, on one side, hammered	LEGLESS
Subtly introduce new form of annuities	INSINUATE
Top Roman bishop in row with one American	TIBERIUS
Transport minister meeting Russian?	MINIVAN
Travel around eastern Maine to test some maths	GEOMETRY
Violently hector and rail in speech	RHETORICAL

Clues	Answers
Booking calls for bands showing promise	engagement rings
Bury New Street collects intermittently larger tax abroad	internal revenue
Client fools river bird heading west	CONSUMER
Commercial about Clio, say, was entertaining	AMUSED
Crooked mountain top work shed	BENT
Cut Mass among Anglicans before November	CHEAPEN
Disputed science eastern genius devised to trap carbon	EUGENICS
Driver glances at this stern opinion by paper	rear-view mirror
Finished grant once, putting away too much	OVERINDULGENCE
Force prisoners on coach	CONSTRAIN
Girl defending Joe's heartfelt complaint?	ANGINA
He's unlikely to recover unit in Greece	GONER
Heather nursing English married couple's rodent	LEMMING
Old airline to circle course	BEARING