The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28863

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Clues Answers
A small amount that’s penned about part of tyre TREAD
Become expert in microwave device, having invested time MASTER
Dampen sound of activity? I’d provided way, ultimately HUMIDIFY
Delighted song No. 1 in Estonia, in conclusion ENCHANTED
Film director joined ranks, heading for immortality FELLINI
French are looking less well, slipping back in this? RELAPSE
Fruit drink company’s rise covered by a volume AVOCADOS
Garden worker adopting couple of articles separately as protection from sun? HEADGEAR
Gentle touch on posterior? Punched by female, a pioneering spirit PATHFINDER
Greedy person — upset of course WOLF
Host welcoming English man with his peculiar device MECHANISM
Incident is occurring in recording poem EPISODE
Large number upset after US detective produces weapon PISTOL
Liquid carrier’s first thing needed for big run BLADDER
Miser’s personality recalled after vicious creatures returned SCROOGE
No afternoon exam could be unethical AMORAL
Clues Answers
Nuts about Beethoven’s Third, beginning to rave over conductor MAESTRO
On leaving, marks time? HOURS
Opening in chess later had revised place for bishop CATHEDRAL
Parody of East German leaving Central American country somehow true CARICATURE
Party — our group — beginning to resist payment for union DOWER
Single line by individual LONE
Soldiers had an impact in area of operations ORBIT
Still turn up, very lost INERT
Subsequently less sensible, losing head AFTER
Successful student receiving new piano GRAND
Suggest liqueur is lacking a bit of excitement ADVOCATE
Unclear change that’s reduced offer TURBID
Well-adapted, efficient, and thus pithy? Not initially ERGONOMIC
What coiner produces — good simoleon in counterfeit form NEOLOGISM
Wicked made moral in this? MELODRAMA
Worker missing high point in stage work OPERA