The Times Cryptic puzzle clues 2024 Feb 27

• Ask to box good fighter, turning up to prevent cheating Crossword Clue
• Brought up-to-date wine plugged by European tax-free? Crossword Clue
• Colourful bird from which bank of Liffey? Crossword Clue
• Dissolute rake seized by school head - odd character! Crossword Clue
• Eastender's ashamed, inhabiting urban area in disrepair Crossword Clue
• Going out with no one, southern Frenchman's upset Crossword Clue
• Group's reason for not playing badminton? Crossword Clue
• Hard drink turned up in market Crossword Clue
• Humorous use of language, not unknown in press Crossword Clue
• I'm grateful after unwrapping some yarn, say Crossword Clue
• Incompatible staff given role following appeal Crossword Clue
• In France, noble ruler's excessively liberal means of punishment Crossword Clue
• Leader of Soviet revolt stifles resistance, causing shock Crossword Clue
• Left the setter twinkling rings, getting amount paid Crossword Clue
• Maybe Russian in bar almost drinking litre Crossword Clue
• Most stout and claret drained, with partners tucking in Crossword Clue
• Polish detective in film Crossword Clue
• Reason clock stops working in American's holidays Crossword Clue
• Rich person in Ithaca developed test for believers Crossword Clue
• Saccharin oddly dropped as energy drink ingredient Crossword Clue
• Seeking Parisian in Angola's capital gobbling sandwiches Crossword Clue
• Showed the way job's secured in design originally Crossword Clue
• Silly sports coats and old hat Crossword Clue
• Something played in prom breathtakingly Crossword Clue
• State commercial breaks Italy broadcast cease to work Crossword Clue
• Two kings with large housing areas in African village Crossword Clue
• Useless and, for Marx, boring socialist worker, say Crossword Clue
• What might swell looker sport as well as yuppie's jackets? Crossword Clue