The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1068

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Clues Answers
A day given opening — now on calendar? ADVENT
Arrive shortly on flat territory and grumble COMPLAIN
Candle that a person gets hold of TAPER
Confused situation with nothing right in church service MORASS
Exclamation of annoyance when daughter meets rodent DRAT
Fall apart, having cold and noise in stomach? CRUMBLE
Fiddler supposedly with refusal to entertain the Queen NERO
Former lover having requests cries EXCLAIMS
Go through church under mass of stonework? PIERCE
Group of coots in Asia flying ASSOCIATION
Hospital official who could give Ron meal ALMONER
Loner in sports ground, learner needing exercise RECLUSE
Clues Answers
Most exciting preliminary contest involving fantastic side HEADIEST
Musical dramas are so fantastic when piano is included OPERAS
Odd creation modified and harmonised COORDINATED
Oily liquid ruining eco-store CREOSOTE
Pill, see, could be this shape ELLIPSE
Poet denied king food EATS
Shell of yellow hue on French sea ORMER
Sixty minutes with one beautiful female HOURI
Stylish little bird with tail hidden CHIC
Supports politicians giving accounts of what happened earlier backstories
Temporary pavilion so unstable, sheltering Rex PROVISIONAL
Trips made by drunkard rolling over outside old city TOURS