The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26848

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Clues Answers
Abandon fight SCRAP
Bard in region's capital HOMER
British territory using top foreign currency: yen crown colony
Catholic in action trashed drug NARCOTIC
Climber wants sweetheart to care for HONEYSUCKLE
Cook uses hands to provide protection from heat SUNSHADES
Curry, possibly fish, with minimum of rice SKATER
Device for stopping strike TAP
Disconcerting seaman holds officer up RATTLING
Doctor west of desert heading off light rain DRIZZLE
Drinks, say, containing trace of natural stimulant GINSENG
Furious criminal KO'ing one copper? RUFOUS
Group in department ran chemistry block TRANCHE
Increasingly sexy queen more accessible when husband's away.. RANDIER
Intelligence — something parents pass on, mostly GEN
Intricate craft displayed in novel Eliot penned NEEDLEPOINT
Clues Answers
Love mate to accept credit with king out of sight OPTICAL
Means of accommodating baby's exuberant conduct? high chair
Nothing close up to tear ZIP
Orator's prosecuted for fraud PSEUD
Outstanding rhetoric in support of underground system? PROTUBERANT
Pernicious decree slashing French wine output, ultimately VIRULENT
Rats count on dogs being heard TELLTALES
Regularly launch into tunneller's underground entrance MANHOLE
Rode briskly round lake, keeping horse restrained THROTTLED
Short drinkers may relish this distorted sound RYE
Some not in US army, maybe, returning to claim benefits? sign on
Some of our ancestors, needing exercise, agreed to box APEMEN
Spread from union journal kept back GAMUT
Theory from revolutionary Frenchman with half a dozen sheep? MARXISM
Where pupils get together a learner's relaxed INFORMAL
Wretched idler not pruning old bit of plant TENDRIL