The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1698

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Clues Answers
’umble villain from superior sixties musical recalled URIAH
Approach steps in wall, perhaps, speaking STYLE
Aspect ultimately tiresome, in truth FACET
Bottom half of barrel old cook emptied BUTTOCK
Country, for example, base for army training EGYPT
Criminal one captured by the force THIEF
Desperate or fancy fellow, expert in karate? DAN
Excited exclamation Dorothy regularly let out OOH
Fake, largely inferior, hair preparation SHAMPOO
Father and I with close companion FRIEND
Female Steerforth corrupted embracing a new dad? foster father
Flower one’s seen in the light DAISY
Gave dad note for translation DONATED
Clues Answers
Girl from W European country’s chartered accountant FRANCESCA
In British Library’s not above making awful errors BLUNDERS
In the past, American English being employed too much OVERUSE
Left-winger to make brisk progress TROT
Lift, tho’, is out of order HOIST
Make racket, with lorry briefly stuck in street CONSTRUCT
Nice edifices, sadly displaying shortcomings deficiencies
Reddish-brown ape hugging retreating salesman COPPERY
Series of Wayfarer — unnecessary to televise again? RERUN
Shower of affection coming out of Barkis — seriously! KISSER
Sound quality coming from south west? TONE
Stony garden has circle for a hundred nesting birds ROOKERY
Wager Ed, stocking fish, is sold out BETRAYED