The Times Cryptic 2019 08 20 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
After the last of chips are almost finished, eat fish	SARDINE
Paint Raymond keeps something for pending tasks	in-tray
Coin in large pot	COPPER
Mammal's lair covered with rubbish	RODENT
Troublemaker tries, stupidly, to protect gutless rioter	STIRRER
ETERNAL FOOL TO ACCEPT POINT BY SETTER?	AGELESS
RUNNER AT LAST CONQUERS KARAKORAM PEAK	SKI
KID HAS REPAIRED ONE AFRICAN GARMENT	DASHIKI
PRODUCED NOTE BEFORE THE SIGNAL TO STOP	FATHERED
DRY SKIN FROM HERE ONE MIGHT TAKE OFF	AIRSTRIP
American friend turns up with excellent port	DUBAI
Warning: she may lead you astray	SIREN
LAUGHING STALIN SET ABOUT MILITARY LEADERS	JOCOSE
Show Mal bizarre scientific theory	OHMS LAW
STRANGE TALES ABOUT FIRM THAT ONCE FLAVOURED BEER	ALECOST
Comeback from a Republican claiming “fake news”	ANSWER
Railway out of extremely pleasant place with canals	VENICE
Persistent nuisance lucky to avoid fine	IMPORTUNATE
DESPERATE NEED TO PUT A BIBLE IN THE POST	STARVATION
Changing pants idea is so cool	DISPASSIONATE
Trailer parking right alongside edge of rifle range	PREVIEW
SWEETENER WHEN WISE MAN LOSES HEAD OVER ROTTEN MEAT	ASPARTAME
PHYSICIAN IN BOX CARRIED BY MASSIVE ANIMALS	HIPPOCRATES
Drunken snob with no taste devours a simple meal	BEANS ON TOAST
PAINTER NEEDING ONE PAPER GETTING ANOTHER ON FIRST	EXPRESSIONIST
Horse to follow flawlessly finding way through?	PATH
Disreputable lawyer, retiring and mostly stern	SHYSTER
Start in earnest to embrace foreign food	TARTINE
One taking to a certain party, say booze	CIDER
JOURNALISTS IN TEA-SHOP OCCASIONALLY DRINK	ESPRESSO
Better writing from woman husband shunned	EDIT
Writer entering big public competitions	OPENS
HOMER'S INITIAL APPEARS IN IRRATIONAL LETTER TO GREEKS	PHI
Some scared lads up a tree	ALDER
FANCIED SLOGAN FOR SUBVERSIVE REPORTER?	IMAGINED
Important final pieces of tape disguised how paintwork may be vandalised	KEYED
Protein excess ends in muscle expansion	GLUTEN
SALLY READY TO EMBRACE EAST GERMAN	RIPOSTE
DECREASE IN EXPECTED WIND LEVEL	DWINDLE
Provide funds for hunting in retreat	BACKTRACKING
MC: I dare say it represented the end of the war	ARMISTICE DAY
OLD EUROPEAN TO SING ABOUT GOOD IN HUMANS	Cro-magnon
Wandering around, detective wears no protective clothing	NOMADIC
Weird artist associated with opera in China	PARANORMAL
County name from French and German?	DEVON
Set to reach maturity, needing to shed weight	GROUP
Showing excellent vision, Tokyo won this Olympic bid	twenty-twenty
Be, for the most part, extremely ill-disposed and very cross	LIVID
Remarkable reason you can’t book a restaurant?	NOTABLE
FORMER KENT PLAYER ALWAYS UP TO CONSERVE ENERGY	REEVE
PLEA FOR SHORT DASH TO PROVIDE MEDICAL HELP	ENTREAT
Planes flying somewhere in Italy	NAPLES

After the last of chips are almost finished, eat fish

SARDINE

Paint Raymond keeps something for pending tasks

in-tray

Coin in large pot

COPPER

Mammal's lair covered with rubbish

RODENT

Troublemaker tries, stupidly, to protect gutless rioter

STIRRER

ETERNAL FOOL TO ACCEPT POINT BY SETTER?

AGELESS