The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 05 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
HIT MOST OF THE SPOTS THRASH
Divine smell, for example SENSE
Arrest reversed during crisis at surgery STASIS
ONE RELATIVE AND ONE FRIEND LACKING SPIRIT INANIMATE
Substitute book RESERVE
Lass there, awfully cruel HEARTLESS
Long period beginning in November YEARN
Posh fur fit for purpose USABLE
Pay Greek character heading for Belgium to follow truck PICK UP THE TAB
STRANGEST IDEA TO REBUILD WEST SUSSEX TOWN EAST GRINSTEAD
Private meal with no starter INNER
Drink that's exceedingly short, say VERMOUTH
Execute that man bathed in a little sweat? BEHEAD
A blast — methane, perhaps? GAS
Empty carriage destined to take away a joiner CEMENT
By the sound of it, taken to court for fraud PSEUD
Place under collar for punch NAILSET
Creatures overcoming resistance with each lot of cold water BERING SEA
Drunk? That’s illegal UNDER THE TABLE
Religion in Wiltshire regularly occupying various imams MITHRAISM
Fold petal another way PLEAT
Representative from state capital holding small article SALESMAN
Frightful Tory here? But so is a poet ROBERT SOUTHEY
A drug ring supplying interplanetary travellers ASTEROID BELT
FIRST IN HIERARCHY, NUMBER IS TOP HEIGHT
Group getting cold in tub BATCH
Demon in Mephistopheles personified, originally IMP
Rogue may tease a mug EASY MEAT
UPSET OR PLACATE FEMALE RULER CLEOPATRA
Cheek — that's by the mouth LIP
Neurotic ignoring cold snaps as usual ROUTINE
Remove Times puzzle, finally ERASE
Stepping down, agreeing terms again? RESIGNING
Thankless spy and head of security greeting teacher MAHARISHI
Kindling catches on TWIGS
Tell all lighter Greeks to conserve energy SPILL THE BEANS
Conveyed cases almost once a week SENNIGHT
Uninhibited person, say, on end of pier RAVER
Hard worker supporting architect ADAMANT
Adriatic port targets problem with locks SPLIT ENDS
Awkward getting some sleep in it INAPT
STUDENT, BIT OF A LOOKER? PUPIL
Beam left at home by Lawrence initially LINTEL
Man with no end in sight, repeating certain steps cha-cha
Smooth gelato melted LEGATO
Universal acclaim for lift UPRAISE
Get rid of brushwood SCRUB
SORT OUT MIDDLE SECTION OF TUNE WITH COMPOSER UNRAVEL
Painful sensation of deer crossing English stream HEARTBURN
A MIDDLE SECTION IN DIRE TUNE AIR
University plugging dissertations in ancient Greek THESEUS
Fifty per cent of dumb animals making money DUCATS
Spy about right in capital of Asian country ARGENTINA
Second letter in a large, complicated branch of mathematics ALGEBRA