The Times - Cryptic - December 29, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26294 - December 29, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
A second-rate hospital men detest	ABHOR
Archer on river carrying wine and salt	TELLURITE
Attack and surround Black Isle disturbing wild geese	BESIEGE
Bone vizsla initially buried in West Indian shrub	ANVIL
Convert's style of writing, undemanding for listeners	PROSELYTE
Dairy product made by man before crossing river	GRUYERE
Firm turning out small item of furniture	TABLE
Flame stops two English knights being put in the picture	ENLIGHTEN
In Paris I work on a road, taking unknown risk	JEOPARDY
In which dancer leaves ground to beg outside church	ENTRECHAT
Jack meets rubbish dumper, heading off for dance	JITTERBUG
Just avoiding it makes us even-tempered	EQUABLE
Knowledgeable about securing right opening	INTRO
Lad with temperature happy at first in mountain shelter	BOTHY
Leather supplied by son in Tamworth family?	PIGSKIN

Clues	Answers
Locomotive girl and boy choose to enter, skirting European lake	DIESELELECTRIC
Older person like Lord Emsworth preceding current Queen?	EARLIER
Originally employing only women, a revolutionary plant?	ANEMONE
Outgoing former traveller featuring in Times?	EXTROVERT
Position of sister captain finally put ashore	NUNSHIP
Pressure on engineers in sorry jam, perhaps	SPREAD
Red priest upset huge number, it's said	VERMILION
Reportedly require massage	KNEAD
Run off with writer's girl	PENELOPE
She's very fair, initially letting in old men at pub dances	PLATINUMBLONDE
Shoots hens, possibly?	LAYERS
Sphere of action Italian relative briefly backed first	ORBIT
Terrible storm involving a key conductor	MAESTRO
Took courses partly devised in Edinburgh	DINED
Wind from both sides tearing into poet	SOUTHERLY