The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27380

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Clues Answers
A French cookery writer reportedly never surpassed UNBEATEN
An anthropoid ape abandoning sick goat ANGORA
Bird runs away from mole PIE
Clarifying old project a politician put together EXPLANATORY
Container originally carrying wine from the east CANISTER
Count disturbed by a tirade before a dance TARANTELLA
Direct popular chap primarily employed in army intelligence INSTANTANEOUS
Exclamation of relief not many voiced PHEW
Explosion traveller recorded at first in a number of books REPORT
Figure one changed at random hendecagon
Function held up by old archbishop with jagged teeth? runcinate
In Hogwarts, a new sickbay SAN
Islanders’ expression of pleasure in some Venetian paintings TAHITIANS
Isolated peak nobody attempts to scale, do we hear? NUNATAK
Clues Answers
Judge stamping down on American gangster’s noncompliance REFUSAL
Lover involved with riot at opera il trovatore
One who takes on work with model OPPOSER
Projectiles initially manufactured in a very short time AMMO
Sci-fi captain reversing cart in Scottish burial ground KIRKYARD
Sent out principally for eating lolly in art period? SEICENTO
Smart and trendy? It’s what fast movers make it SNAPPY
Sort of fruit a granny eats when husband is out? ANANAS
Spanish chap, person once nursing certain soldiers SENOR
State, inter alia, what can stop us? ALBANIA
Suitor regularly found in German novelist’s imposing house MANSION
Time to tuck into finest burger concoction — oops, dropped it! BUTTERFINGERS
What one may learn by accepting established award ROSETTE
Woman digesting opening of tough letter from abroad THETA