The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27925

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Clues Answers
Agree to what one might do to unruly hair PERMIT
American boy outside shouting where are hidden presents? bran tub
Complain after ancient coin found in rhubarb dish roast beef
Contribution is not properly used thus at first INPUT
Elders apt to get drunk — very drunk PLASTERED
Emperor backed an Iranian language, banning son’s imperial title ras tafari
Hard dividing an irrational number, which Diophantus once showed PHI
Help about element helium separation APARTHEID
Helper of St Paul in eastern Tarsus, travelling ERASTUS
In disrepair, old-time banners unable to be shown INDEMONSTRABLE
Irishman reading stuff current in newspaper? PADRAIG
Is old mattress I found in hollow breaking the rules? DISOBEDIENT
Job, perhaps one dividing half of sheep up STOIC
Mammal’s milk, iodine rich primarily TAPIR
Matriarch possibly needs thousand marks extra GRANDMOTHER
Clues Answers
Play I act badly out of character ATYPICAL
Press particular management groups to act tread the boards
Provide food initially to everyone boarding railway carriage CATER
Quarrel with one jeweller TIFFANY
Raised to desert pack TAROT
Single-minded and certain to hold volunteers back DEDICATED
Sinister rising member of upper house cutting Young Conservatives CREEPY
Speak at length with enough for meeting, no question ORATE
Steer regularly seen around short cattle breed for this reason THEREFORE
Supported small tree that has given up the ghost STEADIED
The French emperor’s land in Africa LESOTHO
Time with old couple TWO
Way of getting around remoter areas after boat returns POSTBUS
What might confer a degree of tact when cutting cold Yankee DIPLOMA
What will help one stay clean in dodgy stand-up DUSTPAN