The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27028 May 3 2018

The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27028

Clues	Answers
A minister recalled in Tennessee lodging-place	TAVERN
Anticipate former teacher’s favourite touring clubs	EXPECT
Bacteria? Poetic sort sadly harbours hundreds	STREPTOCOCCI
Bitter as a native of Belgrade, by the sound of it	ACERB
Bungling agent held up by one immediately following	INEXPERT
Company runs hotel in pleasant coastal road	CORNICHE
European river engulfing slender shrub	OLEANDER
Figures perhaps slightly raised	DATA
Firm in Monaco quietly replaced Arab fellow?	stable companion
Forebear caught stabbing a wise old king	ANCESTOR
Graceful fleet regularly observed in sea	BALLETIC
He’s swallowing a novel hospital drug	HASHEESH
His kind goes around gaping	DEHISCENT
I sit out in court abandoned like some holidays	TOURISTIC

Clues	Answers
Innocent, but lacking capacity to cover special case	UNEXCEPTIONABLE
Jam Scottish girl left unfinished on ship	MORASS
Japanese verse reporting shrill sound made by dove?	HAIKU
More sensible to engage one’s orthopaedic auxiliary	BONESETTER
Most of the people in ancient Balkan country	THRACE
Music in motet Verdi revised?	DIVERTIMENTO
Object songbird found in English city	ENTITY
On radio, learn of storm primarily in this area	HEREABOUTS
Producer of rolls finally invests in a famous racehorse	snare drum
Railwaymen once given points to look after	NURSE
Southern Europeans put off trapping a bird, perhaps	SEEDEATER
Spirit finally haunting wide Russian river	GENEVA
Sticky substance overrunning a Pacific island	GUAM
Trying to get hold of beams endlessly	AFTER