The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27029 May 4 2018

The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27029

Clues	Answers
A contemptuous exclamation — silly!	APISH
Accountant who might check one’s pulse?	bean counter
Confident male squirmed oddly	COCKSURE
Container to serve tea; I’ll be after beginning to read leaves	POTPOURRI
Distressed dept. sec. having run in with staff	SCEPTRED
Expose chap entering sprint moving right to the end	UNCOVER
Fool picks up insult implying inability to do so?	cloth-ears
Get back in swing, ticker turning over regularly	re-elect
Independent solicitor’s first to prosecute children	ISSUE
Lag repeatedly to raise time he’s held	bring up the rear
Live stream business news	current affairs
Lot controlling sails etc for ship	FRIGATE
Much like a cakewalk, but smaller and quicker?	ABUNDANCE
Not in formal dress in Balmoral, perhaps, queen is not working	out of kilter
Note to include zero as digit	TOE

Clues	Answers
Police officers transferred for challenge to orthodoxy	DISSENT
Proposed form of extreme devolution rejected after losing a vote	MOVED
Purging heretic, a habitual response	CATHARTIC
Regret spoken jibe, something muttered on stage	RHUBARB
Run out to catch a glimpse of incoming Times competition winner’s prize?	ROSETTE
Sell ingredients for jam?	TRAFFIC
Spacious, from what we hear, but cold	RHEUMY
Time to get to station, perhaps — detectives are being brought up to scratch	ERADICATE
To buck up rogue, cane ordered	ENCOURAGE
Top secret operations going to be sent up in a bit of rhyming verse	TERCET
Trojan “hippy”?	ILIAC
Turns to stare rudely	ROTATES
Unfortunate person missing point in gag	RETCH
Unionists boosted share	CUT
Yellow mineral found around western half of Chad	OCHRE