The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27656 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27656 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Officer orders lane to be diverted round square	squadron leader
Outside entrance to Oratory, interrogate a primate	GORILLA
Popular passage, one acceptable in investiture	INDUCTION
Profound indignation not in fashion	OUTRAGE
Public school type’s rising importance in surrounding area	ETONIAN
Retiring girl eating last of broccoli for fibre	SISAL
Shorten Arsenal’s opening game	ABRIDGE
Showing sagacity the old way?	WISE
Starchy food rejected by European staff one employed in spring?	MAYPOLE
Stately home’s new peach melba line?	Blenheim Palace
Steadiness of British fellow supported by Anglican church	BALANCE
Unexpectedly named by Queen, one changing for the better?	AMENDER
Useless cricketer going round old supply vessel	BUMBOAT
Writer of verse proscribed on radio	BARD

Clues	Answers
A scorer briefly crossing a sort of green, one at the White House once	abraham lincoln
Book Italian cathedral displayed around beginning of last month	DUODECIMO
Decline of French commander English think highly of?	DEGENERATE
Eliot’s first play about small island	EYOT
Eurasian plant — something inviting blessing with limited value	SNEEZEWORT
Evergreen tree European bishop planted in battle site	NASEBERRY
Excessive, but not expected yet?	UNDUE
Exciting fact about flowing water	THRILLING
First of many disrupting Buddhist monk’s current feast	LAMMASTIDE
Friend giving a Russian fighter oxygen	AMIGO
Friendliness of girl embracing computer studies	AMITY
Incorrect answer teacher finally rejected twice? That’s Aussie’s pigeon!	wonga-wonga
Male Liberal passes on cards — everyone must get involved	all hands on deck
Observed freshwater fish, so to speak	EYED