The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27543

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Clues Answers
Activity leading to funeral: sense upset in the heart CORTEGE
Backed some police operations involving men with guns now and then SPORADIC
British city Metro, not entirely something you’d expect to fill with water BATHTUB
Carry sixteen letters uphill TOTE
Chap coming back without a tree ELM
European problem in speech reflected on Greek character EPSILON
Feel source of money in this place is keeping son in work ATMOSPHERE
Fool expected to seize power DUPE
Given good things? Not so much in the plant area BLESSED
His luck failed with English and similar subjects SUCHLIKE
Journalists going after fraudulent money-making in sports equipment racket press
Most of vague sermon ultimately not suitable for ceremony UNCLEAN
Mostly decisive about island emergency CRISIS
Mysterious quantity of film probing most of region ARCANE
One conjectures eggs will turn up in this nest ultimately THEORIST
One targeted by Cupid’s weapon, we hear BEAU
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Other great plays gripping one, ultimately? theatre-goer
Pivotal point thoroughly reduced? A little reduced FULCRUM
Represented as an edible line in confectionery aniseed ball
Rest on quality item on beach BREAKWATER
Rubbish story not involving a rabbit TATTLE
Satisfy school about European Union contribution to French newspaper FEUILLETON
Sound in a particular field? Not entirely unresolved MOO
Sporting contest in progress, involving physical exercise OPEN
Stop work on prison CAN
Story provided by the Schubertian songs LIEDER
Sun now, perhaps — then rain? MONSOON
Symbolic child — I’m in church, making a return TOTEMIC
There’s a wavering around most of back lighting effect on the moon EARTHSHINE
Time for one area to be recalled AGE
Ultimately false number in singer’s equivalent figure alter ego
Version of a simple and cute set of messages for the future time capsule