The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27260

Clues	Answers
Antics succeeded in transforming hero Macbeth?	HORSEPLAY
Blue-green coat is mine — river’s damaged outside	VERDIGRIS
Employment of learned person after university	USAGE
Form, one composed and universal — exactly so	classical music
Fragile £10 with no date for new note?	TENDER
Grey and unfashionable plaster	GROUT
Leak linking visit to young boy up in court	SEEPAGE
Learning about criminal in test gets a boy to see sense	listen to reason
Like birds round celebrity endlessly excite	OVIPAROUS
Maiden taken in by a dreadful Romeo — this one?	ADMIRER
Mediterranean resort opposed to beds, with 500 being axed	ANTIBES
Old cricketer’s grand career	GRACE
Optimism about mostly sound old knight	CHEVALIER
Orwell’s town Wigan is primarily swamped by bad chips	IPSWICH
Plant fibre packed round large slate	BLAST

Clues	Answers
Promoter of scent containing even pieces of anise	SPONSOR
Record includes unknown composer	LISZT
Regular shade used outside a little	HABITUE
Ruined home time slicing potatoes	in tatters
Scottish scientist is the biggest possible bore	MAXWELL
See gold cross on entrance for former pleasure garden	VAUXHALL
Shape character of Greek doctor	RHOMB
Step three beginning calculation in programming language	PASCAL
Submarine’s left for a means of securing something	u bolt
Test substance of date shown in lease	REAGENT
Think highly of including unknown trade union in amalgamation	ADMIXTURE
Trouble following space communication	EMAIL
Trouble to dish out praise	ADORATION
What obsessive does for peanuts and vegetables	split peas
Where dishwasher went cruelly wrong after last of rinses	SCULLERY

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