The Guardian - Cryptic - Dec 11, 2014

 The Guardian - Cryptic - Dec 11, 2014

Clue	Answer
502 shillings invested in plant covered the wound	DRESSED
A flipping flat-bottomed vessel?	TUMBLER
Abandoned ship's first to enter West Country town	LOOSE
Advantage held by landed gentry	EDGE
Aphrodisiac — it's in the heart, rising	EROTIC
Beneath top of mainmast, cast-iron case for the quarterdeck, perhaps?	MINORSUIT
Byzantine empress turning up in Tenerife	IRENE
Cryptically, what might one do with a Cornish pasty and where? That's bliss!	BEATITUDE
Currently in office, office in further test	RESIDENT
Draw away from Land's End, England trailing rapidly away, Cornwall too, for starters	DETRACT
Greek character taking drug with the ability to say 'sausages' backwards?	EPSILON
Harmless drunk missing wife, figure touring the bogs	INOFFENSIVE
Hitter, jumper and flier	CRICKETBAT
Imperfection in desert	DEFECT
In some parts of the plant, little troublemaker initially uses insincere praise	SWEETTALKS

Clue	Answer
Meat cutter that's fast and keen I suspect, cook finally put away	STEAKKNIFE
Moving out of Paignton?	POIGNANT
Mythical flier, wacky with vulture and raven wings	WYVERN
Not entirely green, a South American capital	LIMA
Opera coming over in doubly twisted old maestro	TOSCANINI
Point about record store	DEPOT
Policeman left inside whales	PLOD
Retro lighter in the toilet resembling member	LAVALAMP
River, one in West Country town — yes, yes, yes!	POSITIVES
See 22	NAMEISWOMAN
Something dynamic, perhaps, in horribly dire wet bottom?	RIVERBED
Street, then turn for promenade	STROLL
Time in West China	MATE
West Country town mine, its gold going west?	FROME
Words from Hamlet confusing family with satyr in the West Country	FRAILTYTHY