The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27314 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27314 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Heavens above, such costs are very steep	sky-high
Hector incensed at priest-in-charge	THEOCRAT
How long one might be?	LIFESPAN
Irish writer and musical craftsman	oliver goldsmith
Keen to receive book shedding some light	LAMBENT
Making excuse, do cut off a sexual urge	ALIBI
No particular interest shown around republic	GABON
One supplies accommodation where the Loire flows	HOTELIER
Parched Napoleon wants doctor brought in	bone-dry
People in need as British interpret policy	BREADLINE
Person in red in Scottish dance coming out	FLOWERING
Queues to go inside and drink	lines up
Showing great dignity knocking the beer back	REGAL
Time to expand later period in sport	EVENTING
Why is the good and bad bittersweet?	woody nightshade

Clues	Answers
An agent from the West spoken of	OXIDANT
Article on group having rehearsed play	set piece
Barrister needing week to stuff chicken?	LAWYER
Batting number eleven good, there for long while	LASTING
Beer in the evening for this bird?	NIGHTJAR
Boundless audacity beginning to irritate old academics	EMERITI
Carefree bachelor having much flexibility	BLITHE
Composer using silence can shut up	john cage
Demon not the first to have capital	FREETOWN
Discredit wife leaving prison	NEGATE
Drivel for instance Paddy Ashdown put about?	BILGE
Either one leaving medicine out in local	ENDEMIC
Execution, murder and Girondist's head	DOING
Fruit, halved, originally seen in French school	LYCHEE
Headdress so long one wears	TIARA