The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic - November 24, 2014

 The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25952 - November 24, 2014

Clue	Answer
A boring cocktail?	GIMLET
American programme that won't employ old hands?	NEWDEAL
As artist, live amid works	RUBENS
Briefly share a sweet	HALVA
Didn't manage to cross line, so beaten	FLAILED
Examples thus introduced in different ways for analysis	ASSAY
Flaw in diamonds: result, one female's off	DEFECT
From women's side, one way to cut a flower	DISTAFF
Here one must change skirt after only half a season	TERMINI
I'm starting, say, to intrude on stars	HEREGOES
In bits, still about to hold that function	TEAPARTY
Like a mule to be free of germs	STERILE
Lilac no good planted in troubled country	SYRINGA
Not quite straight as a policy adviser?	WONKY
Nurse has not enough energy for progress at work	CARER

Clue	Answer
On a charge, drunk in port	ANCHORAGE
One that won't fight spy making one change and confess	COMECLEAN
One way to finger extremists?	LUNATICFRINGE
One welcomes receiving post	NEWEL
Particular poet's last to come to the fore in film	PEDANTIC
Plates, etc, almost hold together Aussie creature that's died out	BONECHINA
Play at bones, risking becoming them?	DICEWITHDEATH
Potential skipper, originally simply human, scarily changed	CHRYSALIS
Pounds being invested, that is by no means the best for industry	IDLEST
Rate at first constant later fell	CHIDE
Sticker may be mine	LIMPET
Supply in condition, I note	PROVISION
Take apart an alliance, one near abandoning resistance	ANATOMISE
Take for granted missing page in summary	RESUME
The joy of bustling city life	FELICITY