The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26169 - August 5, 2015

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Clues Answers
17 hero giving attention to basketwork EARWICKER
Agnes soused with pub wife appears in spurious comic work FINNEGANSWAKE
Answer arrived about extremely discursive intellectual world ACADEME
Apparition in relative darkness SHADE
Award winner — first clue here? VICTORIACROSS
Batting team dismissed completely INSIDEOUT
Being out, have order picked up by neighbours? OVERHEARD
Benefit to collect towards ESA mentioned above AFORESAID
Choice between stem and stern for Argonaut needing a vessel AORTA
Cole takes luggage in taxi close to Braintree CABBAGE
Compound tainted iced tea brought round before noon ACETAMIDE
Cross-country runners from Gosforth are slower HARES
Drink consuming Australian Harry, racketeer, rising writer EMILEZOLA
East Sea creature sheds tail in Spring EMANATE
English-Gaelic translation written in couplets ELEGIAC
Clues Answers
Fine cut for commentators SHEER
He composed second letter, spelled out later to preserve old volume BEETHOVEN
Husband in robe left here to worship CHAPEL
Last from Monkhouse joke stock EQUIP
Like a bald tyre, maybe, sons twice pulled out, rocking lever TREADLE
Place in Surrey for one overacting EGHAM
Poet and author held by commies in revolution SPENDER
Practised catches in the grass REHEARSED
Run public house in time, and situate vacant couch differently REPHRASE
Shocking fuss accompanies outside broadcast OBSCENE
Soak or submerge to negotiate river DRUNK
Soldiers after charge can't stand ABHOR
Spanner's good held by new union member BRIDGE
Stressed command of tzar so muddled SFORZATO
Weak in recession, I intend to block account ANAEMIC