The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1617

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Clues Answers
Alas, nut wrong fruit! SULTANA
Beef optimal, can emptied out COMPLAINT
But it's a dramatic work! PLAY
Defender on the floor, stop attacking back down
Difficult — as peak may be? ROCKY
Eat in dining establishment INGEST
Education somehow sold off AUCTIONED
European contradicting principle POLE
Field throw PITCH
Fine land around Leicester's outskirts all right
Flammable substance for glass PROPANE
Is that funny? Silence! GAG
Listened to this or that, sorceress WITCH
Clues Answers
Local block BAR
Location faculty mentioned SITE
Model done with this playboy HEDONIST
Much-loved dad, initially up late and reading POPULAR
Nut was obliged to protect kernel in general HEAD
One or two animals in the field? SHEEPDOG
Practise fighting, taking knocks from behind SPAR
Roof off cosy place, our home EARTH
Smart running DASHING
Song recalled in Hair, Aquarius ARIA
Turning a hundred, I left line on map TROPIC
Tweeter's bedtime tipple? NIGHTJAR
Unruly perm's cut in rainbow colours SPECTRUM