The Times - Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solution - March 20, 2015

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 20651 - March 20, 2015

Clues	Answers
As one understands initially and informally, darkness heading for dawn	UNITED
Chambers takes a running jump?	VAULTS
Chance to join hands at bridge with girl	EVENS
Contemplate change in partner	MEDITATE
Fabulous line ready to broadcast, filled with information	LEGENDARY
Fine to poke amphibian that's producing foam	FROTHING
Flower behind river in darkish purple, on recollection	BUTTERCUP
I dressed in blue for the most part, ending in pale green	NAIVE
I signed contract that's just right	IDEAL
In American literature, stop for some time	PERIOD
Irish turned up north of little Italian port	RIMINI
Lofty publication has nothing new in quote that's ludicrous	MAGNILOQUENT
Long-distance runner cut over peak in Nepal	SEVERN
Lose head in temper on frequent occasions	OFTEN

Clues	Answers
Monarch, name possibly in doubt	QUEENMARY
No night-light eclipses very old one used underground	DAVYLAMP
One putting up a German cowboy?	JERRYBUILDER
Oppressor free of blemish?	DESPOT
Peer into precise feature on a car	REARLIGHT
Relaxing novel deviates	SEDATIVE
Rug cosy, but not right for native American home	WIGWAM
Sail off amid endless noise, land on the Horn of Africa	DJIBOUTI
Second year held by continental of an ancient empire	ASSYRIAN
Secure boats, cutters	NAILCLIPPERS
Slow, rather like pellets?	SLUGGISH
Swallow, one settling finally into its home?	INGEST
Worm, perhaps, runs into another worm?	WRIGGLER
Wrongly say menu needs scorpion in a stew	MISPRONOUNCE