The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27682 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27682 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Officer looked up to by a learner but not journalist	ADMIRAL
One telling tale about naughty woman	REEVE
Order fellows into risky venture	BEHEST
Passage of time managed by model	TRANSIT
Petition stars outside entrance to show	ORISON
Possess top-class modern technology to gain advantage	have the best of it
Pupils maybe hinder class - terrible fool must go!	CHILDREN
Quarrels difficult to deal with, leader being put down	TIFFS
Retro record by the French star	ALGOL
Rod turns up with Heather, whooping it up	revelling
Scottish island to have a go at crime	BARRATRY
Sir dealt with cheats, fearsome disciplinarian?	CHASTISER
Time to encounter sorceress in the grass	TWITCH
Water flowing badly, river choked by spicy stuff	MILLRACE
Within country's borders it's somehow vulgar and gloomy	CLOUDY

Clues	Answers
A son's nurture say may be disturbed by these big beasts	tyrannosauruses
A sweetheart's getting caught in hiding places perhaps	ALCOVES
A yacht was wrecked — no hint of hope for me?	CASTAWAY
African party on estate with men, one from a previous generation	ANCESTOR
Animated demon about to capture loveless one	LIVENED
Cattle going to water in Scotland, being smart	NEATNESS
Coffee encountered, getting knocked over	DECAF
Cross gentleman nabbing a commissioned officer	SALTIRE
Dog having white heifer as companion? That's an unusual thing	CURIO
Embarrass a bishop with a demand to keep quiet	ABASH
Get on well, having success with one swell guy	hit it off
Ground wanted around lake? Don't build on it, surely?	WETLAND
I may be found out by this lab equipment!	AMMETER
Like rock when submerged by sea	BASALTIC
Mound is a new work: last of earth going in	ANTHILL