The Times - Cryptic - April 29, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26085 - April 29, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
Backing provides funds for boxing at sports venues	STADIA
Bent Conservative marked for surveillance?	CRINGED
Bishop fell over part of cleaner's equipment	BROOM
Bud at last seen in first green plant	BEDSTRAW
Characters potentially OK for crew?	WORKFORCE
Clubs will crack	CLEAVE
Cricket bat badly restricted by variations in pitch	WILLOW
Criminal mates pinching your old ring may display it	AMETHYST
Fielding side's below par	OFF
First-class assessor rising in party's admin office	SECRETARIAT
Great transport, one way or another, for one aboard	SUPERB
Green faction's precursor to burying the hatchet?	OLIVEBRANCH
Having forgotten answer, decline prize	TROPHY
King's Cross, centre of area further north	REX
Look at what happens when I hit the roof audibly?	EYEBALL
Metal covered by connecting wire	LEADIN

Clues	Answers
Moved close to mother during birth	DRAWN
One side of coin given in benefit — there's a catch	DOVERSOLE
Pedestrian's speed when skirting lake on plain	COMMONPLACE
Powerless board as described by a quirky panel	AQUAPLANE
Pretty good show, getting bowled for 100 following on	RESPECTABLE
Scratch the surface of wound, and cause alarm for some	SCARIFY
Significant clergyman making sound in the East End?	REVEALING
Society needs force to beat it	SCRAM
Something one trying had in the past	AGO
Spare Times the setter brought back in record time	EXEMPT
Tenacious man cutting commercial charge for letter	ADHERENT
Turning place for sheep	TUP
Tyrant giving drug to small boy	DESPOT
What fledglings do the wrong way round, being despondent	DOWNCAST
What quibblers do about replacing leader in base	CAVIL
Where patient visitors gather, daughter having gone too	BESIDES