The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27139

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Clues Answers
A better article in French about S American mammal ALPACA
Acknowledge record formerly held by English CONCEDE
Bill promises to pay after new dog first becomes aggressive PUGNACIOUS
Bridge players tremble receiving intelligence agency’s note SEMIQUAVER
Classy naval NCO’s husband POSH
Contact — a whimsical-sounding one touring north ACQUAINTANCE
Eg Brunel’s technique ultimately, never without spirit ENGINEER
Enduring a heartless injunction ABIDING
Help tidy up school appeal? COEDIT
High-class writer with tailless dog, standing erect UPENDING
Impartial peacekeepers stationed around India UNBIASED
Keeping register back, risks joint state office CHANCELLORSHIP
Meet round rear of Garrick for burlesque SKIT
Missile Soviets introduced — something to chew over? SCUD
Clues Answers
Noble widow’s party bet, mostly payable before game dowager duchess
Not any composition left unfinished! NONE
Novelist bringing Worthing’s alter ego way to the front? STERNE
Officer’s servant engaging old person in row, perhaps? BOATMAN
Precipitation beginning to settle at present SNOW
Revealing falsehood suppressed by one of the Archers? TELLTALE
Shield university kept in battered chest once ESCUTCHEON
Touch down on river following try-out of plane test flight
Tufted material originally clicked with Shetland, town right away CANDLEWICK
TV award this writer rejected? Goodness! EMMY
Weakness in a country novel the Spanish girl finally digested achilles heel
With the current duke, have new master DOWNSTREAM
Woman identifies with first murder victim ISABEL
Yellow ducks, for example, seen around marsh GAMBOGE