The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27266 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27266 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Painter drawn to East End longing for some theatrics	OPERA
Permissible in each game	POKER
Process intended to avoid a course of drugs	TREATMENT
Prophet rejected peculiar feature of the body	SOMATIC
Restrict supply of booze? There’s a reason	RATIONALE
Revolutionary man of the cloth, one swapping with European	LENIN
Riots flaring in the middle of Dublin’s port	BRISTOL
Strike ban announcement covering particular craft	IKEBANA
Sweet given Her Majesty’s approval, perhaps a moneymaker	royal mint
Teacher’s upset, being given single meatball	RISSOLE
They mind the sultanas not being whole	EUNUCHS
Top chap riding white horses well?	SURFACE
Top-class Olympic venue reluctant at first to identify seducer	LOTHARIO
Unique reason for not lighting up?	MATCHLESS
Variable? I hesitate to say, I like it!	YUM
Woman’s wedding announcement removed from case	ANN

Clues	Answers
Apparently retired city bishops spilt the beans	BLABBED
British soldier back in prison	BRIG
Case of Navajo and the sleep that never ends? Most curious!	NOSIEST
Cold-blooded customers can make a canon sad	ANACONDAS
Doctor has to sleep over in empty synagogue	SPIKE
Expose oneself to copper wearing hip designer’s latest	INCUR
Famous Liverpudlian flag, 50 for a penny	LENNON
Get rid of priest, worried about mind finally failing	ELIMINATE
Henry breaking policeman’s teeth	CHOPPERS
I am a droll, outlandish creature	ARMADILLO
I see Bacon wrongly getting great respect	OBEISANCE
Idiot fiancé prepared for instruction	EDIFICATION
It makes a loud noise and it smells	HOOTER
Keep on smooching, being very close	neck and neck
Make changes to what one eats, promoting energy	EDIT
One who dishes out fast food to audience	DONOR