The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27811

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Clues Answers
“Every dog has his day” — including this wild one? JACKAL
A couple of points established in successor’s examination of feet SCANSION
Alienate bishop leaving most agreeable mountain chain ESTRANGE
Better covering for the head CAP
Centre identified by married man dropping by HUB
Cetacean that kills seabird, by the sound of it ORC
Chatty fellow countryman digesting a lot of poetry CONVERSATIONAL
Disgusting old woman thus turning up outside university ODIOUS
Embrace monarch largely unknown in some quarters SQUEEZE
Ensign concerned with touring island group ANCIENT
Female ultimately worried about male issue EMANATE
Final release of vehicle trapped in blustery rain NIRVANA
Girl and boy wrapping last of durable fabric NANKEEN
Late 16th-century blaze in the area being developed ELIZABETHAN
Clues Answers
Magician in Tyneside clubs, one telling fanciful lies NECROMANCER
Misses out, presumably, in these privileged occupations? jobs for the boys
Most important vessel coming from the East TOP
NCO needing a lot of books after material SERGEANT
One resisting old person’s first question OPPOSER
Party requisite causing agitation in Manhattan? cocktail shaker
Short girl crossing European river by a rosaceous shrub JAPONICA
Small child — one with a bite! NIPPER
Smoker’s requisite produced by daily on tube pipe cleaner
Soldiers in Spanish port with share in renewal of energy reinvigoration
Sovereign English politician meets on ship EMPRESS
Type of injection sadly not universal — not quite INTRAVENOUS
Way retired copper enters in manner of vampire DRACULA
Working American president touring capital of Louisiana USABLE