The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27110 August 7 2018

The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27110

Clues	Answers
A major win, dispatching last couple in open court	ATRIUM
Agree to make up Spanish hero Quixote’s ending	COINCIDE
Answer in affirmative? Certainly right for me!	YEASAYER
Cavalryman unwise to hold Soviet Union’s leaders back	HUSSAR
Cheap Mac to acquire	BUDGET
Clear street crossing island	RID
Doctor receiving sick people, collecting crowd’s spit?	DOPPELGANGER
Expert not nerdy enough, ignoring repetitions of old rules?	PROTOCOL
Fantastic reptile with head becoming wide	WIZARD
Fellow space expert having half forgotten energy debacle	CATASTROPHE
Female working, about to deliver hot dish	FONDUE
Met objective the fuzz finally see, excited about that	rendezvoused
Notices cause of cuts on the radio	ADS
Obscure later note in financial district dishonesty	ECLIPSE

Clues	Answers
Perhaps GP test includes name of creed	DOCTRINAL
Persuade to use unfinished rail line’s termini	INVEIGLE
Put cloth cover on shivering dun horse	ENSHROUD
Serious honour senior accepts	SOBER
Some like it here as one of a twosome	EITHER
Something suggestive of ennui, waving with nod	INNUENDO
Sore loser’s first returning racket	LESION
Trouble keeping half of common people in heating fuel	PARAFFIN
Unofficial law enforcer has criminal given tail	VIGILANTE
Vividly colourful bug on sources of metal coin	FLUORESCENT
Was head of detectives turned?	RANCID
Without improvement, varying sea level rises into crumbling dune	UNEDITED
Workshop more recently losing roof?	ATELIER
Yard excavation turns frivolous	GIDDY