The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28701

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Clues Answers
49 per cent? 100 per cent! not half
Approximately year lost by African slave on island CALIBAN
Bar I dropped thrown out BANISHED
Bit mean, to make contact! touch base
Bonus clue TIP
Close to gagging when I cry, first of all BASICALLY
Country united in reversal of basic principles CUBA
Cow eating cow, perhaps: roughly speaking, is its mate able to? CANNIBAL
Draw what informally comes up TOW
Farm employees not working easily hands down
Genuine Polish saint HONEST
Head cut off in photograph, laugh HOOT
Italian tide with Latino turned NEAPOLITAN
Item of footwear, one treading on banana skin? SLIPPER
Level of tale told to audience STOREY
Lush part of rural Kyrgyzstan ALKY
Clues Answers
Measure has brought the enemy into focus CENTIMETRE
Old swimmer lassoing a bovine OAFISH
One screw securing another, gripping device CRAMPON
Pick up coin, did you say? SCENT
Piece of meat and celery, perhaps, feeding couple in the Far East? CHOPSTICKS
Poetry in very old language succeeded VERSES
Sometimes a lack of staff as a consequence? now and then
Spot Italian meat SPECK
Squirrel away, turning up with nuts as diet put aside
Steel shackles put on, that's an obscenity! SWEARWORD
Supply funds for vessel STOCKPOT
Tavern needs vermouth, don't you agree? INNIT
Wine having seen better days removed from case ASTI
Wine kitty keeps at home PINOT
Witnesses inhaling the fumes SEETHES