| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27185 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| 2 sounding like twice that | TUTU |
| Busy with letters about 500 serving staff | ATTENDANTS |
| Coercion getting church to replace queen and noblewoman | DUCHESS |
| Dishonest part of family in Genoa | LYING |
| Evidently vote against party | BEANO |
| Film director with no good cut is top in Rank | PREMIER |
| Fruit began going bad in truck | LOGANBERRY |
| Fruit containing date’s pith, covered with colour regulator? | MELATONIN |
| Go around clubs banned from turning tricks | SKIRT |
| Help as Brie deteriorates, being this? | PERISHABLE |
| High official confidence in time to stop UN hardliner | Undersecretary |
| Italian official returned for one binge with ill effects | DOGE |
| Knocking out West Bromwich, playing in diamond formation | RHOMBIC |
| Love curry? This food store also has eggs | HONEYCOMB |
| Maybe harvest more than in rocky spot | OUTCROP |
| One with ocular singularity has operations on endless rotation | CYCLOPS |
| Perhaps queen’s consorts and host in drinking tribute lowering glasses finally | TOMCATS |
| Pink people addicted to driving? | CARNATION |
| Plug hole’s rims accept variable pressure | HYPE |
| Prevailed, though apparently snubbed again, or overlooked | REIGNED |
| Radical in uncontrolled movement keeping apart two Conservatives at odds | CONTRADICTORY |
| Rallying cry as mate almost lets next person deal? | all hands on deck |
| Statesman-like, still keeping Oscar fired up | POLITIC |
| Unconditional truce’s ending between kitty and corgi, in disarray | CATEGORIC |
| Utter speech hoping to sell skill with notes | absolute pitch |
| What offers support for female opera star’s first half? | BRAVA |
| Wife wears cool light brown | FAWN |
| Yield malevolent creature nabbed by agents over suffering at high levels | acrophobic |
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