The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
PRIME JOURNAL, NOT THE FIRST TREATISE ON ANIMALS BESTIARY
I’m sharp, but would I ever make a fast bowler? HATPIN
BLOOMER I COMMITTED ORIGINALLY IN CITY OF STAR-CROSSED LOVERS VERONICA
SCAVENGER HAS BRIEFLY TO CONTAIN HUNGER HYENA
SAMPLED BOTTLES WITHOUT MEANS, AT FIRST, SUCH AS SCHOONERS? two-masted
Island’s importance, short of energy WIGHT
For audience, bring in vessel URN
To ravage always wrong, note LAY WASTE
Sudden noise? Exactly BANG
Current man on board DRAUGHT
SIX HUGE GUARDS LEFT KEEPING WATCH VIGILANT
QUALITY OF FINE CHAMPERS, MAYBE, OR PILSENER, AS DRUNK PEARLINESS
NO PLACE FOR SCOTT OR JANIS TO WED JOIN
Request one’s placed between wife and husband WISH
MARRY SUPPORTER OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION? UNITE
IN NASA LAB, A MAD STATE ALABAMA
Maybe egoists changing gradually AS TIME GOES BY
Row concerning whose turn it is to catch up TIER
About to tuck into reddish-brown biscuit MACAROON
Did spring article in Paris: fitting! LEAPT
Not an intelligent sort of angle? OBTUSE
LIKE THE DUTCH, PRUDENTLY CHANGING SHILLINGS TO FRANCS WIFELY
BATTLE HAD AROUND AMERICAN, 50, IN POSH HOTEL AUSTERLITZ
Survivor of The Archers broadcast absent as ISIHAC’s beginning SEBASTIAN
Tough joint of meat for refuge, by the way HARD SHOULDER
Corruption of niece’s MP, for example SPECIMEN
Bung in favourable publicity PLUG
PORT CONTRIBUTING TO HIGH-RISK OBESITY KOBE
Piece of information union contributed to barrier DATUM
On the front, extremely large, mature tree ELM
BRANCH TO YIELD TO AUDITORS BOUGH
AFTER BATTLE, NAPOLEON EVACUATED A PART OF AUSTRIA VIENNA
CRUEL AND SENSELESS TO INHIBIT WHAT BEES DO INHUMANE
June’s last tango: it hit her badly THIRTIETH
Caught by tree branch, making this? CLIMB
Sudden vivid memory of, say, Gordon Champion FLASHBACK
Wide outbreak of pied mice disrupted EPIDEMIC
Hanging around, putting in zero housework HOOVERING
QUICKLY, SINGER GRABS LARGE WADER ALLEGRETTO
LOVER ONCE WHOLLY TRANSFIXED BY ISLAND OF GREAT BEAUTY EXQUISITE
FINE-TUNE VARIABLE WAY OF WORKING ON HOLIDAY HONEYMOON
THOSE WHO INVESTIGATE REPORT OF TAVERN GHOSTS? INSPECTORS
Current age of US lawman given in play TODAY
Initially has sort of connection with railway’s sound management HUSBANDRY
Goons hail different ruffians HOOLIGANS
Excellent advice to papa TIPTOP
Principal gateway perhaps ARCH
GRASP A FIGHTING EUROPEAN BY THE HEAD AWARENESS
Hang on here: this is part of a circus act TRAPEZE
CELEBRATED DAY SCHOOL BEING OVER NOTED
Card player’s score put out? PIQUE
People’s food likes oddly exposed FOLKS
A curtain said to be useful AVAIL
Assessments of sailors? RATINGS
Incantation provides chap with raised skill MANTRA
WW2 leader’s some competitor! TITO