The Times - Cryptic - March 22, 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26679 - March 22, 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
Architect listened to great applause for modernising	RENOVATION
Bird's tight feeling in stomach?	KNOT
Commander right about alternative to Hamlet, period	OCTOBER
Conjuror's rueful remark, losing his stick occasionally?	NOWANDTHEN
Coupling a disadvantage as pair finally go for run	DRAWBAR
Endlessly put off covering a mark and smear	DEFAME
Fast runner in leading position backed, covered by stake	ANTELOPE
Go round one place several times	TRIPLY
God, number one of that name? I believe in them all	PANTHEIST
Grassy area is a little piece of greenery short	LEA
In drink, German is beside himself	DISTRAUGHT
In the shade, running water and glass that's got left out	BURNTUMBER
Incorrectly rank hat as lambskin	ASTRAKHAN
Jacks in the drink: it's bitter	ABSINTHE
Jargon on lease reinterpreted	LEGALESE

 

Clues	Answers
Land fish: is one going to tuck in?	TUNISIA
Losing footing, go down hard on board? It's not beyond repair	TREATABLE
Outlaw's skill: poultry beheaded at end of day	FRIARTUCK
Part of prison: a cell extended for engine casing	NACELLE
Playwright pulling back from boundary	BARRIE
Practise fighting soldiers: no comfort here	SPARTA
Shark not female, like 6	MONKISH
Speaker's cat catching a rook	LARYNX
Tickle bird, badly worried	TITILLATE
Too dry and hot unfortunately for visitor to Oz	DOROTHY
Unlike you, in play I act badly	ATYPICAL
User of acid as anaesthetic about to be arrested	ETCHER
Walk quietly up, skirting unusual threat from this?	DEATHTRAP
Was told to ignore Resistance leader	HEAD
Without yen, very little money	TIN