| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27196 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Act of worship no longer being kept on hold? | OFFICE |
| Against Parisian that abandons collector’s item | ANTI |
| Blunt men taking in a museum keeper | CURATOR |
| Chap briefly invested in farmland? That’s open to debate | ARGUABLE |
| Deliver a rocket, blowing up a dictator there | read the riot act |
| Emperor’s hesitation to appear in Japanese drama | NERO |
| Gen boys misused? Let them be themselves | BYGONES |
| Get the better of blooming Scotsman you once put up | OUTJOCKEY |
| Girl’s gain secured by climbing mountain | ANNETTE |
| Goodman’s sound fortune’s talked of in European union | BENELUX |
| Hamlet’s rest? As interrupted by the French | SILENCE |
| High-flyer from Kentucky by lake in Channel Island | SKYLARK |
| Journalist wearing flashy jewels takes to new dog | BEDLINGTON |
| Li’l cartoon hero mostly kept in and denied | ABNEGATED |
| Like a polar phenomenon initially recognised in a university exam | AURORAL |
| Neat newly-wed touring key academic institutions | OXBRIDGE |
| One with pride in Sir Tristram’s birthplace, do we hear? | LIONESS |
| Outburst by a politician __ it’s to do with taste | GUSTATORY |
| Person funding music reproduction maybe one that lists our faults? | recording angel |
| Pigeon buff going over story on radio | FANTAIL |
| Presumably they permit certain forms of communication | LETTERS |
| Set about English mob half-heartedly responding to direction | STEERABLE |
| Sexton’s bag is placed in quarters, centrally | SACRIST |
| Specialist painter, one earning right to be accepted | grainer |
| Unscrupulous lawyer __ some pushy stereotype | SHYSTER |
| Up-and-coming leftist’s equestrian technique | rising trot |
| Woman’s goodness about accommodating retired lieutenant | MYRTLE |
| Writer James gets run over in colony of birds | HERONRY |
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