The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 11 07

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Single chap from east embracing old woman NAOMI
Buccaneer’s reportedly indelicate manner CORSAIR
Put thus St Mary is a very clever person smarty-pants
Sort of lynx bishop caught in seagoing vessel BOBCAT
Churchyard tree the solver talked of YEW
Wheeler-dealer’s stage performance? Flipping rubbish! OPERATOR
Policemen’s ball held here? COP SHOP
Deliver poem perhaps about spectacle mentioned in speech RECITE
Rest of university engaged in lie RESIDUE
Dictator’s parentage in dispute DISSENT
Broadcast is just what bald Cockney needs? AIR
Without money in Tehran, terribly distressed HEARTBROKEN
Military policeman in preferred capacity REDCAP
Endlessly stylish Greek character CHI
Person teasing cleric, one leaving Worcs town KIDDERMINSTER
Amends article skewering coppers PENANCE
Grumble when husband gets in hock, perhaps WHINE
What keeps the old folk mobile? BUS PASS
Rum methods wife deployed — don’t tell anyone MUMS THE WORD
Theft by the Tories? It’s a plot! CONSPIRACY
Impulsive Yank soon antes up SPONTANEOUS
Old man’s attempt to make some dough PASTRY
Disturbing a French kid he produces a nose rag HANDKERCHIEF
Gun manufacturer said to be an honest broker PEACEMAKER
Her sons cut the damaged tree HORSE CHESTNUT
Secure area of the sea SOUND
Back with leader moving east in old Portuguese possession GOA
Stupid British artist getting out more? BRAINLESS
Beg to get church involved in ballet movement ENTRECHAT
Austere knight leaves climb in Cairngorms, primarily ASCETIC
Paint Hope nursing men brutish at heart PORTRAY
Stories appearing in American anthologies ANA
High-ranking Asian woman say taken in by tramp BEGUM
Fellow doctor supports beloved, a source of sweetness HONEYCOMB
Restriction on amphetamine usage? SPEED LIMIT
What snooker player does the wrong way round in bar STOP
Seedy soldiers kept in subject to argument DISREPUTABLE
Idiosyncratic member of parliament having name for Liberal OWN
One reigning over a long period ERA
LEY LINES SET OUT IN A CONFUSED MANNER? SENILELY
Catch half-decent fish ENTANGLE
Book house overlooking ocean HOSEA
Hard man with practical skills HANDY
Who’s head of Mafia family? Legendary old Greek ADONIS
Loot harbour, causing misery SPOILSPORT
Soldier perhaps catching disease far away ABSENT
ALMOST PANIC, GETTING AWARD FOR WAY OF COOKING FLAMBE
Rule again, suffering spasmodic pain NEURALGIA
In nightmare perversely argue with two bishops BUGBEAR
As well-placed models presumably are when sitting? PRETTY
Novelist recalling old church ECO
Name of third-born registered in Somerset House SETH
Mob must be mad, losing billions ARMY
Stay with reactionary American while away SUSPEND
Spot child eating fly SMIDGEON
Rebuked in hearing and carried away RAPT