The Times - Specialist - Mephisto No 3253

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Clues Answers
A European said to be bitter ACERB
A pair of similar characters at one time together — but not now attonce
Artist wearing hat in tree carap
Attack misery in farming festival lamb-ale
Attention needed in the French lesson — not now leare
Beginner? Nay — old boy! NOOB
Buddhist community celebrated in this year SANGHA
Certain lack of ability in adult, once little and spirited aliteracy
Communications system used in remote travel TETRA
Darlings with obligations to old simpleton dawties
Dish with a round shape given to soldier PEROGI
Expert police investigator keeping anything but quiet DEFT
For that time cathedral city closed early THEREFOR
Fruit — there’s nothing quainter somehow ORTANIQUE
Gem that could be displayed by Claire and Ann CARNELIAN
Get rid of chief troublemaker in military district banate
Go round on ice, not finishing game SKAT
Good person that is given rise? Not these days! stie
Clues Answers
Intersection made with one entering gap CHIASM
King with the best possible fanciful thought revery
Like old art — against including modern? TRECENTO
Message to Verges maybe amounts to this: “Riders go by in order with little male behind” dogberryism
Old equipment rejected includes a drum TAIKO
Part of book (not the middle) in old-fashioned print preace
Permit the last word to be given to rebellious youth bedecked like a hippy? passamented
Record valuable material in letter EPISTLE
Singer missing introduction must go back Renig
So vehicle is certainly old-fashioned siccar
Somehow cure tall plants, first to last REEST
South of region revolutionary had briefly seized once areached
Surgeon cheeky going round hospital, mostly doing nothing trephiner
That referee shows what is forbidden TREF
Tool — one’s kept in Jock’s shed stone saw
Tries to rival Eastern drug-carriers EMULES
Washed in moving water reportedly tyed
Welshman possibly upset when daughter interrupts formal meal SEDER