The Telegraph – Cryptic – Apr 27 2018

Clues	Answers
A ‘person of spirit’ not going to extremes	MEDIUM
A time to hold party with sailors and soldiers getting decoration	ADORNMENT
Army officer engaging a second person to make plan	LAYOUT
At least eight rods providing restrictions	CHAINS
Consequence of university learner getting external support	RESULT
Destroy version of Bible in fit of anger	RAVAGE
Dining not good in officers’ room — quality lacking in vegetables	MEATINESS
Female bird in Spooner’s male enclosure	PEAHEN
Female Conservative taking particular position	CONSTANCE
Fish that’s terrible being served up	DAB
Form of slap dance in outdoor scene	LANDSCAPE
Good person ‘it ‘ard showed signs of nervousness maybe?	STAMMERED
Helmet — it’s not this being worn by one knight	TINHAT
Important Indian women arranging a man’s hair	MAHARANIS
Long-distance traveller turns to AA when in trouble	ASTRONAUT

Clues	Answers
Member of tribe given river job, character that communicates colourfully?	PICTUREPOSTCARD
Move forward with father’s boy	PASSON
Mug in desert, one getting lost	GOB
On stage	LEG
PM to phone Turkish leader before start of negotiations	CALLAGHAN
Protester in Norfolk town I injure with punch?	DISSIDENT
Stir when little river goes into a great river	AROUSE
The last thing you expect to see in the dark?	TAILLIGHT
Tiles in a teashop, broken, top of roof having fallen in	OPERAHATS
Tried, having cheated in the past	HADAGO
Vet, it is apparent, abused those paying for healthcare	PRIVATEPATIENTS
Walker heading off, one moving at a slow pace	AMBLER
Was first to get replacement for tungsten lamp?	LED
Wish of French father	DESIRE
Worrying about nothing, our lot having a ball	CAROUSING