The Times - Cryptic - May 3, 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26402 - May 3, 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
A slowing down when politician gets in a sort of depression	ARMPIT
Anger about home, awkward, not half — it lets in water	RAINGAUGE
Blaspheme in the absence of saint or priest	CURE
College fellow keeps All Saints Day, having been raised in a bygone age	DEVONIAN
Commends a very quiet hour of prayer	APPLAUDS
Composer's great achievement sitting on poetic island	COUPERIN
Criticise attempt to secure tricky sale making amusing remark?	PLEASANTRY
Daughter: one who should pay widow's share	DOWER
Desolate area with a wild animal crossing street	WASTELAND
Family member making the sound of a big star	GRANDSON
Fellow with inner power is the symbol of a nation	MAPLE
Flap that's not right for take-off	SKIT
Frenchman's material?	JEAN
Get ready to listen — there can be awful panic with pressure, OK?	PRICKUPONESEARS
He has left historic parliament: that's a blow	TRUMP

Clues	Answers
In concerts I observe people with legitimate expectations	PROMISEES
Individual conveyed by motorist towards the sea	DOWNRIVER
Mild person not in religious group, one having been put out	GENTLE
One is 'Mr Opera' possibly?	IMPRESARIO
Phony communicator offering formula for rubbish joke?	SPINDOCTOR
Plant by river in pattern on the box	RASTER
Region's publication	TRACT
Regions suffering setback with introduction of a tyrant	SATRAP
St Paul's man having traumatic experience with church lapsing	WREN
The stick American English gets	CANE
They stand to gain property on a river	LEGATEES
Vast enterprise deviously penetrated by English agents	REPRESENTATIVES
Very good lake crossed by birds and other fliers	COPILOTS
Way line emerges from poet	PATH
What one of the children, as Spooner would have it, is very dull?	DITCHWATER