The Times - Cryptic - April 2 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27314
Clues	Answers
An agent from the West spoken of	OXIDANT
Article on group having rehearsed play	set piece
Barrister needing week to stuff chicken?	LAWYER
Batting number eleven good, there for long while	LASTING
Beer in the evening for this bird?	NIGHTJAR
Boundless audacity beginning to irritate old academics	EMERITI
Carefree bachelor having much flexibility	BLITHE
Composer using silence can shut up	john cage
Demon not the first to have capital	FREETOWN
Discredit wife leaving prison	NEGATE
Drivel for instance Paddy Ashdown put about?	BILGE
Either one leaving medicine out in local	ENDEMIC
Execution, murder and Girondist's head	DOING
Fruit, halved, originally seen in French school	LYCHEE
Headdress so long one wears	TIARA
Heavens above, such costs are very steep	sky-high
Hector incensed at priest-in-charge	THEOCRAT
How long one might be?	LIFESPAN
Irish writer and musical craftsman	oliver goldsmith
Keen to receive book shedding some light	LAMBENT
Making excuse, do cut off a sexual urge	ALIBI
No particular interest shown around republic	GABON
One supplies accommodation where the Loire flows	HOTELIER
Parched Napoleon wants doctor brought in	bone-dry
People in need as British interpret policy	BREADLINE
Person in red in Scottish dance coming out	FLOWERING
Queues to go inside and drink	lines up
Showing great dignity knocking the beer back	REGAL
Time to expand later period in sport	EVENTING
Why is the good and bad bittersweet?	woody nightshade
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1321
Clues	Answers
A narrow opening, stone	AGATE
A number eating seconds and wanting a drink	THIRSTY
After operation, suture organ	UTERUS
Collapse suddenly and sensationally	drop-dead
Deters boy running round breeding ground	oyster bed
Get less time on copier	TAPER
Good and bad both in this? It may suggest glibness	mixed blessing
In cathedral city, notice palace	ELYSEE
Light case that used to be magic?	LANTERN
Mountain lake is hard to discolour	TARNISH
Musicians needing money not good, any number admitted	brass band
Only a temporary profession?	ACTING
Protective screen thrown round lake	SHIELD
Pub quarrel in northern town	BARROW
Quiet-sounding musical composition	PIECE
Soldier in uniform	REGULAR
Something for baby, banked when finished with?	BOTTLE
Spy for newspaper	OBSERVER
Taken off guard, chap put in gang confused	caught napping
Tin boxes taken regularly in little boat	CANOE
Walk very slowly inside church	INCH
We are going to water-hole	WELL
What starts without intelligence	WIT
Woman never stripped	EVE