The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2258

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
A bishop grabbing painter’s horse ARAB
Article on diocese making you fume SEETHE
As a result, king lacking self-confidence EGO
Ask Edgar about period long ago Dark Ages
Cairo man ordered an Italian dish MACARONI
Code word for E in city house ECHO
Don Corleone finally finished DONE
Everyone in that place completely sane all there
Gloomy detective eating nothing MOROSE
Gossip about the French in holiday accommodation CHALET
Large whisky maybe for young singer? TREBLE
Nasty-sounding chicken? FOWL
One going AWOL in Sahara perhaps, unnerved at heart DESERTER
Clues Answers
Piece of cake that you eat outside? PICNIC
Put son in Hilton perhaps — or somewhere cheaper? HOSTEL
Rejection of agreement covering national insurance DENIAL
Senior officers stop bars becoming disorderly top brass
Set sail occasionally with popular Soviet leader STALIN
Some pilot or soldier’s dismembered body TORSO
Spent erratically, concealing record ENTER
Steal an advantage EDGE
Story one acted out ANECDOTE
Tragic character in place with few inhabitants HAMLET
Travelling attraction kicking female out? That’s not right UNFAIR
Work-shy superstar, they say IDLE