The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 05 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Club accommodating old vessel BOAT
Dry land reduced to powder GROUND
Gourmet cooked pie to preserve EPICURE
Plain retired vicar dipping into Holy Writ OVERT
Purchase cheap newspaper during formal reception LEVERAGE
Resolve to put off race crossing major road DETERMINATION
Sanctimonious bunch making TV try-out PILOT
Take courses in shelter? That’s most clever NEATEST
When speaking, beg for quarry PREY
Oscar, writing half-heartedly, finds opportunity OPENING
Go-between — a pukka fellow! AGENT
Clear-headed law lord covering island group LUCID
Ungainly politician, one in luxurious environment LUMPISH
Subject to terrible end in ancient city UNDER
Onset of primitive impulse to eradicate PURGE
Solitary person’s high honour featured in article abroad LONESOME
Risk backing old police force and its area of activity INCUR
Rings protractedly for tea OOLONG
Wrongly cite touring superstar mostly attractive to viewers TELEGENIC
Like some churches, requiring expensive form of light STEEPLED
Support part of UK backing Asian republic INDIA
Honour over in Kiel, Bonn, etc ENNOBLE
Strange chaps originally transmitting such miscellaneous items ODDMENTS
European state’s obsession involving church function MACEDONIA
Cheap device for identifying stream by church PINCHBECK
Story about king, one in early film TALKIE
An old railway hotel by river providing charitable accommodation? ALMSHOUSE
Leader of union forcing rebellion UPRISING
Stop, for example, in Hebridean island COLONSAY
Some retired people wear one near formal strip NIGHTIE
Uniformed employee in firm, initially managing task on river COMMISSIONAIRE
Spotted animal setter possibly observed on train coach dog
Uproar engendered by American supporting scrum RUCKUS
Masterminds seeing Latin Lit translated INTELLIGENTSIA
Inclined to trap game, inviting legal action LITIGABLE
Fail to be a turncoat, we hear? It’s intrusive KNOTGRASS
Bard’s work stirs writer primarily active around district SHAKESPEAREANA