The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28051

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Clues Answers
A German man’s climbing plants FLORA
Announcement of top dog PEKE
ASEAN capitals developed very slowly at a snails pace
Assemble revolutionary missile when outside AMASS
Creative doctor a strict one ARTISTIC
Determined to restrain Conservative playing fast and loose INCONSISTENT
Failure of French newspaper, reactionary editor dismissed LEMON
Feeling one must leave for a time? SENTENCE
Fruit no lovers want? GOOSEBERRY
Fuss about fleet, initially adrift in storm TORNADO
Geisha’s artful display of her bloomers? IKEBANA
Home at ten, horribly worn out MOTHEATEN
Impostor’s bribe rejected by head of state POSER
Jack’s partner going topless, a provocation making you embarrassed ill at ease
Clues Answers
Late aunts done for in Oman? SULTANATE
Manage somehow with just two cooks? make do
Market charges ending in scandal often BILLINGSGATE
On the mend in Bow, or somewhere else in London? EALING
Poet joining regiment shortly SASSOON
Priest’s vestment not required, I hear SURPLICE
Rotten time handling disarray, not following party line off-message
Sailors who hum? They stimulate you smelling salts
Short scruffy wanderer, taken short, finds a tree MANGROVE
Superior’s hasty departure on vessel from the east top-flight
The fall of General Custer AUTUMN
They leave old English books outside university EXEUNT
Too apparent in allusion on occasion ALSO
Tories oddly without passion in operations room THEATRE