The Times - Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solution - March 10, 2015

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26042 - March 10, 2015

Clues	Answers
A chap in Belgrade picked up bitter	ACERB
Ban blocks Partridge becoming a star	ALDEBARAN
Begin gathering flower heads in radiating pattern	STARBURST
Cantankerous salesman's taken up poetry	PERVERSE
Childless drunk unhappy couples do it	SPLITUP
Collection with fruit drinks in bar	WHIPROUND
Doctor Seuss following headless corpse to see hero	ODYSSEUS
During interval, strike a light	GASLAMP
Easy ladies seen half cut	LOOSE
Ex rejects fine supplier of mother-of-pearl	ORMER
Found old wickets behind goal	ENDOW
Girl upset about extremely shoddy attempts to show distortions	ASYMMETRIES
Good pay rise covers wife's trinket	GEWGAW
He's so mean one might, strangely, risk banks	DOGINTHEMANGER
King with graduate: a relative	GRANDMA

Clues	Answers
Kitchen implements turned up in a hole, over one thousand	TIMPANI
Medic splits chemistry and different subject	THERMODYNAMICS
Mercator's Weltanschauung?	WORLDVIEW
Migrant broadcast crossing barrier	SWALLOW
Old wooden antiques, about ten boxes	TREEN
Papers abandon bereft woman and boy	WOW
Plato, say, in one of his letters: 'Work hard to stop failure'	PHILOSOPHER
Put dish outside close to vegetable waste processor	BOWEL
Raw minced tuna caught in bay beginning to go off	AUNATUREL
Tack everywhere except north	SEW
Tense press chief's gone off touring	ONEDGE
Top four removed from board	EXECUTE
Typically where to pull in surrounding area	ONAVERAGE
What's heard in small crèche, close to centre?	SCREECH
Work on scales of fish round its head, say	SOLFEGE