The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27973

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Clues Answers
A believer in hi-tech industry HINDU
A function I must host in desert SINAI
An attempt at seduction? I don’t believe you! come-on
Article Time’s written about the O2? ARENA
Blooming British abandoning fight OUT
Complexity of speech on European research facility ELABORATION
Figure Penny has fake army ID PYRAMID
Gloomy bishop opening church bazaar? SABLE
Hurry back, seizing government vehicle estate car
Improvement that will take you to next level? UPLIFT
Line of troops in action CREASE
Monstrous female, noted Liverpudlian you say? SCYLLA
Old folk freeze at home in retirement ICENI
Old man given £1000 twice a year GRANDPAPA
On leave, this writer’s becoming unruly RESTIVE
Clues Answers
Perhaps Elizabeth I’s governess having change of heart TUDOR
Proust only occasionally finding time for sexual activity RUT
Quite mean to eclipse Republican PRETTY
Raids sit uneasily for those like Ann Frank DIARISTS
Rent dockland garage in secret cloak-and-dagger
Second USA trip fresh in the mind UPSTAIRS
Shelves that you might put in wardrobe MOTHBALLS
Singer doing well, joining Queen perhaps INFORMANT
Sleeping topless can be awkward LUMBERING
Splurge when in Paris at end of June, visiting sister SQUANDER
Take care, sweetheart STEADY
Time to meet composer, a nice chap who’ll get your tickets travel agent
Tries to interrupt football team’s practice REHEARSAL
Tsar’s egg addled, leading to complaint STAGGERS
You’ll end up suffering, as undertaker might put it? its your funeral