The Times - Cryptic - January 22, 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26315 - January 22, 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
As one that's been purged of a deadly sin	GREED
Bank requisitions good for a dynamic economy	TIGER
Be forgetful when preparing fishing equipment? Don't believe it!	PACKOFLIES
Bowled beamer, mostly to get old captain dismissed	BLIGH
Brit parent forbidding a certain hairstyle	POMPADOUR
Chap to be acquitted with the passing of time	GEOFF
Cup substitute missing kick confronted after upset	DECAF
Drains trenches	SAPS
Drink like firewater? Take less of that!	KEFIR
Endorses Austrian film director's obscure way of communicating	BACKSLANG
Fallout from turning back fine provender is something shocking	SIDEEFFECT
Florentine count not exactly big up in Oderzo at first	CLAUDIO
Hail mat that's transformed plant receptacles	THALAMI
Hospital doctor who's done less about containing matter	REGISTRAR
Hum, when going about work, the end of this?	POPSONG
I don't know a way through	PASS

Clues	Answers
Increasingly fat old poet eating with son	HANDSOMER
Like the novel one couldn't put down?	COWRITTEN
Litter disturbed and collected in dry mop?	SEDANCHAIR
Mural: one depicting Scottish champion	WALLACE
One making good sort of theatre flier	REPAIRMAN
Persuaded that mended footwear could be picked up	SOLD
Plug fitting — I hesitate to say this might not be needed	ADAPTER
Quiet at-home? Mine is something different!	SHINDIG
Quietly courts one fleeing wealthy tribal head	PATRIARCH
Read out letters from outskirts of Southern German city	ESSEN
Short expressive song and dance bears fruit	AVOCADO
Step from carriage on thoroughfare	STAIR
Sweetener originally placed in the palm?	DATESUGAR
Two girls crash party in Ireland	FIANNAFAIL
What makes shoe skidproof and sort of stable	STUD
Work formed source of erotic novel	FREEDOM