The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic Crossword Answer - September 2, 2014

 The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic Crossword Solutions - September 2, 2014

Clue	Answer
Are suet crumbles luxurious? No, the opposite!	AUSTERE
Bags of empty instruments	DRAINPIPES
Blue ground covering marine area fit for operation	USEABLE
Couple regretted leaving university in rows	TIERED
Cuts, no end of Whitehall procedures	OPS
Defensive arrangement of royal assistant overheard	PALISADE
Extremely strict girl cracks joke	PURITAN
Go AWOL? Sailor's upset soldier	DESERTRAT
Having difficulty finding place for bird's nest?	INTHESOUP
Holiday queues not new, leading to blows	EASTERLIES
I alter this for a trusted friend	EGO
Lose one's grip on holiday journey	LEAVEGO
Man that is first for solo piano parts	IVORIES
Mark, rising oarsman, staying behind at university	UPSTROKE
Master baker, temporarily unavailable is avoiding work	BUNKINGOFF
Mountainous country's very boring hotel refurbished	LESOTHO
Near retracted cattle pens time and again	NEXTTO
Note charges up and consider it acceptable	SEEFIT
Pass on what could be heard as Indian region scandal	DELEGATE
Pennsylvania meaning to introduce racing event: moped, for one, is in it	PASTTENSE
Pressure shown by a short graduated measure?	PASCAL
Queue's said to follow this series at peaks	ATOP
Sign of cold French winter featured in carol?	SHIVERING
Son quits game	SEVENS
Spendthrifts favouring lodgings around a lake	PRODIGALS
Stand in Tube jostling with Tutsis	SUBSTITUTE
Stick end of leg forward in a toboggan	GLUE
Taunting of a batsman leads to square leg boundary!	SLEDGE
Whole numbers of irregular regiments losing heart	INTEGERS
Woman and daughter break into shop — one lifts loads	STEVEDORE