The Times - Cryptic - January 8 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26929
Clues	Answers
A rum time, unfortunately, to be wet behind the ears	IMMATURE
Absorb work in month at university	mop up
Arsenal player initially performing in tired environment	WEAPONRY
Attack section of ancient poem	FIT
Blowing in gusts, just as European leaves for south	SQUALLY
Borrow book on Ravel, good in translation	LAVENGRO
Bumbling old fellow putting a gloss on things?	BUFFER
CO’s assistants adapt, releasing direction over soldiers?	ADJUTANTS
Consider fashion, following posh medic, and show resentment	take umbrage
Cross about article blocking extremely windy entrance	DOORWAY
Diligent Brahmans maybe leaving hotel, united in small groups?	INDUSTRIOUS
Direct nonsense written about rejected payment	ROBUST
Excessively stupid, entertaining Republican’s arrangement with bank	OVERDRAFT
Girl consuming second course of meal?	SEMOLINA
Girl takes exercise, carrying house keys	PHOEBE
Infusion one’s served in lightish brown earthenware, primarily	TISANE
Jazzman finally spending money on band’s development	benny goodman
One left first, followed by a rich heiress	PORTIA
Passion unknown by a woman like Erica?	HEATHERY
Possibly count on rising bachelor needing lover once	NOBLEMAN
Prayer old teacher offered up before broadcasting	ORISON
Quirk a woman originally uncovered in an arboreal mammal	KINKAJOU
Regularly grow rushes and furze	GORSE
See about beginning to erect sign	LEO
See very old city hospital protected by barrier	DURHAM
Senior diplomat taking a shift with a male singer?	AMBASSADRESS
Unbalanced lord accepting work with team	LOPSIDED
Unproductive 8, by the sound of it?	BARREN
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Clues	Answers
Best to expose swindle	OUTDO
Biblical brother cheated in games, audaciously	ESAU
Brick carrier, note, returned	HOD
Could be Hazel’s crazy!	NUTS
Dispatched exhausted, having lost power	SENT
Fellow’s keeping odd bits of non-fat dyes	HENNAS
Finished off dad’s untended patio, finally rebuilt	done and dusted
Fools grandmothers	NANAS
Getting article on the day is the very devil!	SATAN
Girl, initially not available, almost caught	NANETTE
House, not unexpectedly, eclipsed	OUTSHONE
Hudson runs around barefoot	UNSHOD
Ice in the second half of the weekend, we hear	SUNDAE
Ignore informal parade ground command	SHUN
Lastly, had you take on an extra governess	DUENNA
Minded accommodation for someone in South Sea resort	house-sat
Newspaper’s connected to underworld — they deflect the heat?	SUNSHADES
Piece contributing to compilation one thousand	NONET
Piping filmed for expert	HOTSHOT
Small girl’s point	DOT
Stands on odd roundabout giving advice	dos and donts
Stockings girl’s heard about leading to exclamations of praise	HOSANNAS
Teacher fixed equipment for language lab?	HEADSET
They receive an unfinished banknote outside front of ATM	ANTENNAE
Thrown out unused, being far from reliable	unduteous
Way to serve cheese, perhaps, and one short health drink?	on toast