The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1562

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Clues Answers
A pigeon for a poet? HOMER
Aggressively male chairman embracing companion MACHO
Arrest of chap from Prague announced CHECK
Article on a criminal is cut LACERATION
Bathrobe serving to conceal fat? OBESE
Be responsible for poetry in Old English OVERSEE
Boring nun made to dance MUNDANE
Bossy young girl running up and down MADAM
Coach fixing the race? TEACHER
Consent to old beast of burden turning back OKAY
Conservative type, as queen’s husband is? CONSORT
Die, as one with laryngitis might? CROAK
Duke Ellington exposes bottom KEEL
Clues Answers
English tutors somehow getting fatter STOUTER
Half of tour party making a fuss to-do
I hear it’s possibly the most dangerous HAIRIEST
Kidnapped a British editor on Tube ABDUCTED
Model office worker keeping you waiting? TEMPLATE
Oddly edgy on ship’s departure EGRESS
One running out of clothes? STREAKER
Sit back, holding ambassador’s paper THESIS
There’s no getting around it — I’m old-fashioned IMPASSE
Two chaps having a laugh? he-he
Unapproachable station controller? REMOTE
Where koala may be in a bit of bother? up a gum tree
Where to find cobbler in the end? at last