The Times Cryptic Crossword Answer - February 3, 2015

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26012 - February 3, 2015

Clues	Answers
Although receiving support, hard to wear long unwanted item	WHITEELEPHANT
Arbiter drops recurring phrase	REFRAIN
Courtesy in competition, top Republican giving way to companion	CHIVALRY
Dance about before exercise ending in swim in river	EXCUSEME
Dispute article about time in ancient city	SPARTA
Event with obstacles raised up and in cases wrecked	PUISSANCE
Exhibit posted in advance?	PRESENT
Force small contribution from speaker	MIGHT
Get less following cut	ETCH
Grasping devout, absorbing account supporting sun god	RAPACIOUS
Island covering inner part of grid	CAPRI
Man reacts to change in holy ritual	SACRAMENT
Meal for pound	BUFFET
Not fanciful to follow team of stars	SIDEREAL

Clues	Answers
Piece of data that's given by saint and is in Greek dialect	STATISTIC
Progress without obstruction from one disrupting schemes in a bad way	PLAINSAILING
Question bishop in part fed to head of government	PROBLEM
Referring to fiction with frequency for assistance	RELIEF
Relative insider having odd characters banished by church	NIECE
Reverse taxes in wrong area, doing volte-face	ANTITHESIS
Revolutionary crowd with energy and desire including expert novelist	MARCELPROUST
Round left in quiz	PLUMP
Slight difficulties luring bears	SLUR
Subversive ace turning up with no name	AGITATOR
Talk in country about weight and heart of dogma	CHINWAG
Tips on race got distributed in forecast	PROGNOSTICATE
Wail, wanting vegetable? Then deserve to go without it	YAMMER
Wrongly suggest holding unfinished story back	IMPROPERLY