The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27697 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27697 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
It cuts tax, giving rise to unbecoming jocularity	LEVITY
Like a type of music exam taken after church	CHORAL
Man decapitated before autumn, when it gets dark	NIGHTFALL
Neat point about turnover of the old plant	OXEYE
New puppies possibly born in rubbish receptacle	litter bin
Old bachelors engineered goal : it’s essential to the score	OBBLIGATO
One’s associated with a former politician’s excuses	ALIBIS
Rock plant lovers mostly want cultivated	navelwort
Sack Liberal leaving for dire crusade	PILGRIMAGE
Tea and fruit taken round east of the Lizard?	CHAMELEON
Tease lad eating core of rotting apple	RIBSTON
They help us to see tiny spots, we hear	SPECS
Tower completely infested by nasty bug	TUGBOAT
Useless-sounding vessel	VEIN
Write someone else’s book? That’s the spirit	GHOST

Clues	Answers
A good universal cure ultimately for malarial fever	AGUE
Acceptable footwear sailor finally carried towards land	ONSHORE
Aim to plug old piece of furniture that can be lengthened	extendable
Antibody ailing gut badly needs initially	AGGLUTININ
Aquatic plant identified by many around university	LOTUS
Architect and town planner set up two hospitals	NASH
Bones Charlie removed from southern African capital	SACRA
Cleaning brass? It’s an illegal activity	money laundering
Composer and Arctic explorer in one	ROSSINI
Crown representative up north in ravine near choppy lake	governor general
Cut back primarily on game	POLO
Do not put up with it casually at first!	TONIC
Having brought up weapon, secure a lump of gold	NUGGET
Head of garrison more disposed to accept new infantryman	GRENADIER
Instrument dismissed husband used to stab Welsh buccaneer	mouth organ