The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27094 July 19 2018

The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27094

Clues	Answers
‘Red’ nation, ultimately lacking energy, invested in fossil fuel	COCHINEAL
A charge for broadcaster’s buttonhole	ACCOST
Amazon’s business returns left foremost of investors worried	e-tail
Amiable clot keeps backing in	CONGENIAL
Artful Republican entering second year	TRICKY
Artiste in French employment on ecstasy	DANSEUSE
Belts as footwear	SOCKS
Benefit from a curtain in auditorium	AVAIL
Burning ambition of spy, abandoning southern state	PYROMANIA
Cause of infestation in Spooner’s heavy metal establishment?	head louse
Charlie had an impact after switching ends	DOLT
Fail to secure degree — Open University course for seamen	LOBSCOUSE
Faulty clue appears — not right for ‘purée’	apple sauce
Fawn was born at the end of April	CAMEL
Form the basis of nameless stress?	UNDERLIE

Clues	Answers
Frozen bones heading to the bottom	ICED
Ground-breaking railway shunned by academy adjoining line	SEMINAL
Heat from another microscopic sample	THERMIC
Heath wherein weird sister moved involuntarily	TWITCHED
Hip-related trouble on the rise in current century	ILIAC
Humour eluding criminal	INDULGE
Instruction from Rome to contact Spanish stadium	BULLRING
Making regular appearances, golfer aims to shine	GLEAM
Partner, at end of session, home at last	TERMINALLY
Presenter’s awful anachronism is edited out	ANCHORMAN
Several branches of tree put a strain on line	extended family
Sign of omission pains head of trade	CARET
Space age opportunity for school-leavers?	gap year
Where to dock horse captured by fighting force?	WHARF
With jibe, spin doctor set out what we can expect in post	job description