The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27502 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27502 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Paint Hope nursing men brutish at heart	PORTRAY
Policemen’s ball held here?	cop shop
Put thus St Mary is a very clever person	smarty-pants
Rebuked in hearing and carried away	RAPT
Rest of university engaged in lie	RESIDUE
Restriction on amphetamine usage?	speed limit
Rum methods wife deployed — don’t tell anyone	mums the word
Soldier perhaps catching disease far away	ABSENT
Spot child eating fly	SMIDGEON
Stay with reactionary American while away	SUSPEND
Theft by the Tories? It’s a plot!	CONSPIRACY
What keeps the old folk mobile?	bus pass
What snooker player does the wrong way round in bar	STOP
Wheeler-dealer’s stage performance? Flipping rubbish!	OPERATOR
Who’s head of Mafia family? Legendary old Greek	ADONIS
Without money in Tehran, terribly distressed	HEARTBROKEN

Clues	Answers
Almost panic, getting award for way of cooking	FLAMBE
Amends article skewering coppers	PENANCE
Back with leader moving east in old Portuguese possession	GOA
Broadcast is just what bald Cockney needs?	AIR
Catch half-decent fish	ENTANGLE
Dictator’s parentage in dispute	DISSENT
Gun manufacturer said to be an honest broker	PEACEMAKER
Idiosyncratic member of parliament having name for Liberal	OWN
Impulsive Yank soon antes up	SPONTANEOUS
In nightmare perversely argue with two bishops	BUGBEAR
Ley lines set out in a confused manner?	senilely
Loot harbour, causing misery	SPOILSPORT
Mob must be mad, losing billions	ARMY
Name of third-born registered in Somerset House	SETH
Novelist recalling old church	ECO
Old man’s attempt to make some dough	PASTRY