The Times - Cryptic - May 17, 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Crossword 12430 Originally published April 1 1970. Substitute puzzle for Qualifier 2 May 17 2017 - May 17, 2017

Clues	Answers
"Slowly answered Arthur from the ____" (Tennyson)	BARGE
A departure in song-writing	GOODBYE
A dish for Adam	SPARERIB
Among the gunners he gets the bird	RHEA
Ark used by a forest hunter?	WOODCRAFT
As a national emblem it has its points	THISTLE
Assistance in the can-can?	LEGUP
Brown grayling	UMBER
Carmen will get some backing in this	REVERSE
Children's stories	FIBS
Disagreeable habit, so to speak	WONT
Fruity order of dismissal	MANGO
He takes care of the pitch	TUNER
Ill-feeling disturbs ten men in repose	RESENTMENT
In the direction of the hospital, perhaps	TOWARDS
Is the accent on pluck?	TWANG

 

Clues	Answers
Like beauty, a dowry entraps the right man	DORMANT
Member of a Savings Group?	RESCUER
Member of the "Awkward Squad" aboard	LANDLUBBER
Men of property as contributors	RATEPAYERS
No 1 Platform?	FIRSTSTAGE
No conveyance back, but something to eat	BACON
Not necessarily ill-natured people	INVALIDS
Paddy might find it correspondingly useful	RICEPAPER
People might be a sight better for their attentions	OCULISTS
Plenty have a hair-style that is on the ball	ABUNDANCE
Pressure is put on it, naturally, for recording	BAROMETER
Puzzling conventions of letter-sorters	ANAGRAMS
Revolutionary movement in prison	STIR
So far, so good, as the extremist might say	LIMIT
They might be made against one's convictions	APPEALS
Yes, cats go wild in rapture	ECSTASY