The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27286 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27286 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Jumper mostly sported at entrance to tyre plant	FLEAWORT
Knight dined in airport in sumptuous manner	ORNATELY
Liberal introducing novel proposition	LEMMA
Libyan port’s endless mist absorbed by boy soldier	BENGHAZI
Material for gloves taken to court by English	SUEDE
Nit-picking fellow going into favourite lines	PEDANTRY
Prehistoric relic sons wrapped in metallic sheet	FOSSIL
Quietly supported by act protecting western water plant	PONDWEED
Rope-maker’s sibling briefly linked with notorious gangster	SISAL
Rugby club used to be pretty successful at first	WASPS
Sort of rock cake cooked by elderly wife?	GREYWACKE
Surprisingly to us, a man spurns a rise in Greece	mount parnassus
Tucking into ham, soldiers respond too forcibly	OVERREACT
Way a person goes about with first bit of Southend rock	SANDSTONE

Clues	Answers
Big gun given position in Albert Hall	BERTHA
Break assistant initially employed touring the States	PAUSE
Can, and reportedly used to, clean in German town	wormwood scrubs
Church abandons whim to create popular resort	CAPRI
Court order Bury police overturned on time	INTERDICT
Dainty swimming aid used by the Spanish	ELFIN
Design upset person painting flat	PLANAR
Do least well: stop taking malt extract containing sulphur	come off worst
Elated over German worker supporting former partner	EXUBERANT
Everyone’s in debt keeping lab working: it’s permitted	ALLOWABLE
Food shop transformed by caste in Leeds	DELICATESSEN
Good woman accommodating learner with pleasure	GLADLY
Hearty boatman’s beginning to steer towards the wind	BLUFF
In Newcastle, popular liaisons: they were once described as naughty!	NINETIES