The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27448 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27448 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Force Frenchmen out of business	COERCE
French port regrettably claiming half of Channel Islands?	CALAIS
Goddess satisfied to block Diana’s target?	DEMETER
I note rising worry over one contact	INTERFACE
Lower back pain? Spies a nervous response in it	SCIATICA
Morning burden? Support embracing wife in evening, mostly	dawn chorus
Mother in love, in pursuit of a sensual man	ANIMAL
Oppressed by false story about new mark	UNDERLINE
Power line here’s flapping, ready for grasping	PREHENSILE
Purcell’s particular note?	middle c
Research formerly capturing an echo effect	RESONANCE
Right time to don hat?	TITLE
Run The Times with an odd approach to attracting readers	human interest
Runs to the front of old plain dome	ROTUNDA
Slip perry and port out of their containers?	ERROR

Clues	Answers
Activity linked to drawing room, we hear	HAUL
An unfortunate situation besets most of the colony	Ant Hill
Another chance to see sport through curtailed opening	RERUN
Aquatic bird, one occupying familiar position of dam	MATERNITY
Bizarre reduction in area around Woking — completely reduced	SURREAL
Cat where birdies are to be had, we hear	LYNX
Component of arm certain to be rejected after stink	HUMERUS
Confuse US crook facing law in Rome	PERPLEX
Cross cat’s sound recalled sound of bird	CHIRRUP
Daughter is coming in nearly frozen — having tried this?	NUDISM
Desert allotment with no source of irrigation	rat on
Dismiss dance as a transient flashy thing	FIREBALL
Evasive action that is needed in a month	SIDESTEP
Faithfulness — a leading feature of crucial church role	ACCURACY
Finger given by this less restrained element?	lunatic fringe