The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28645

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Clues Answers
A large tree growing in European mountains ALPINE
Articles digested by obsessive animal minder NEATHERD
Award most agreeable old canon set up BESTOWAL
Bird westerners originally precooked, unexpectedly WOODPECKER
Child’s toy that may set the pulse racing! PEASHOOTER
Defeat wife going on about steering apparatus OVERWHELM
Endlessly regretting introduction to such decayed buildings RUINS
Extended opus rated badly OUTSPREAD
Farm animals reportedly damaged a career in affluent zone? stockbroker belt
Free fight in horse’s compartment LOOSEBOX
Impartial peacekeepers stationed around India UNBIASED
Intelligence required to frame right legal document WRIT
It may include shells — from Brixham mostly AMMO
Lived in comfort briefly in outskirts of Detroit DWELT
Male artist crossing a bar for a dance in Cuba HABANERA
Clues Answers
Midshipman Easy’s head used in advert REEFER
Military unit cheers celebrity joining club BATTALION
Move stealthily, principally pursuing rare bird PROWL
Movement in water of peacock, say, by river in Staffs city butterfly stroke
Necklace identified in lecture on radio TORC
Netting son installed in border going west MESH
Prickly plant originally trapping antler, perhaps THORN
Sail south, having a kip at first in Greater London town SPINNAKER
Save container king left out for wine BARSAC
Steps over the top, twirling a dagger STILETTO
Style of singing at our carol broadcast? COLORATURA
Undemanding force in English stronghold changing sides EFFORTLESS
Vagrant bowled over by house HOBO
Way you initially cross an underworld river STYX
What a scrounger may do to get cake SPONGE