The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28748

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Clues Answers
A foreign socialist, reportedly still on the shelf? UNREAD
After rout, oddly joke about approach run-up
Already shaved and dressed? PREPARED
Animal smell a local possesses INHUMAN
Attempting to deceive FBI, flung out BLUFFING
Beware of Caligula — he’s a brute CAVEMAN
Calls for new copper to confiscate drugs NEEDS
Chancy affair where spinning round might get you shot? russian roulette
Did judge set date and time for son to visit? ESTIMATED
Example of classic tale ending too soon, in my opinion EPITOME
Gloomy academic, exhausted, drinking whiskey DOWNBEAT
Hand over power as days unfold DEVOLVE
Incompetent monarch changing sides CLOWN
Indicate one can become a medical practitioner DIETICIAN
Killer getting rid of poet’s wife HITMAN
Clues Answers
Let Liberal moving south stand EASEL
One arriving at altar as planned INTENDED
One stuck in a rut — a monk perhaps? creature of habit
Parades one’s needlework perhaps TATTOOS
Ready for romantic encounter now? up-to-date
Rider favouring face guard almost to the end PROVISO
School returning suit — is there money in it? NOTECASE
Spouse in extremis — case for narcotic? SEDATIVE
Stupidly elope with two females making you strip peel off
Surgery on Barbie maybe helping? DOLLOP
Times making retraction in absurd admission of error my bad
Vagrant unsettled briefly among CID NOMADIC
Vicar up against ecclesiastical head’s pizzazz VERVE
Victim needing help, according to the announcer SUCKER
With no guarantee of noticing singer’s back in race MISSABLE