The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28197

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Clues Answers
1000, say; slightly more ones and zeroes MEGABIT
A quiet moment with the French chap behind the museum? ASHMOLE
Animated cow in garden to barge in after hesitation ERMINTRUDE
Bloomer, with Latin stars receiving letter from Greek detectives ASPIDISTRA
Capital made of gossip — PC covered in shame panama city
Come to a halt by front of pub in Ireland EXPIRE
Day trip in need of whacking great deposit pay dirt
Do reduce your litter! sell a pup
Drive away reformed killer, perhaps, wiser after case dismissed EXORCISE
Elders quietly replaced by trees next to railway PRESBYTERY
Evidently need oil pipe SQUEAK
Force king to accept a top politician’s charter map-maker
Gifts the first thing Santa has for picking up? LARGESSE
Go free from Baltic? ZING
Clues Answers
Graduate getting zero on a stiff paper MANILA
Hint — minor — that’s dropped every so often IOTA
Jack, with tyrant’s role, taking time out — making it permanent? ABDICATING
Jerk wanting nothing at first to do with loan request from Antony? OTIC
Link with Brussels bureaucrat so ruefully if partially recalled EUROSTAR
Low calorie helping reduced by a third, people learned LITERATI
Machine chopped fruit that a human regularly bags AUTOMATA
Old sailor wearing light, tight garment LEOTARD
Poet’s light, mostly obscene book day-lewis
Standard, one consistently falling short COMMON
Tips on weapons hardware, so varied ARROWHEADS
Vague desire maybe to get husband for Yankee lady at last wishy-washy
What shoppers do after failure to find cooking ingredient lemon grass
Where cricketers practise catches NETS