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The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 20
The Times Cryptic
Clue
Answer
Book unknown during long period of history
EZRA
What helps one work out the tongue-tied Bronte?
DUMBBELL
RELIGIOUS BODY, ONE SEPARATING TWO VESSELS
VATICAN
One unhappy to be kept inside light fence
PALISADE
RAISE FLAG
JACK
Horse briefly on mark
COLON
Hand raised? Stop trying!
GIVE UP
Talk, and sink back
GAS
Downfall of party over ending of Thatcherism
DOOM
Shoot from the air, moving faster
STRAFE
Character breaking tea urn
NATURE
Superficially misleading issue cop sorted out
SPECIOUS
The Three Broomsticks pub in Hertfordshire town
POTTERS BAR
Chill excessively, remaining calm
OVERCOOL
Wave goes over fish: one runs on foot
ROLLER SKATE
Restriction has Labour leader in party despondent
CLAMPDOWN
Biologist’s need to include sheep that’s brought back
LAMARCK
Gun with zero plastic
HOWITZER
Swell chaps ending in debt after a month
AUGMENT
Complain when love concealed by relative
GROAN
ARTIST OF VERY FASHIONABLE MERIT
HEPWORTH
Some regular gent, in essence, from South America
ARGENTINE
Some crocodiles over in pool
LIDO
Rogue is mighty puckish, originally
IMP
Card game — suddenly lose it?
SNAP
Range of colours allowed in meat spread
PALETTE
Son gets upset belly with fruit when it’s past its best?
sell-by date
Leave a coat
PARKA
Charlie’s married after single mistake
SOLECISM
ALERT, LOOKING TO PASS OR SHOOT?
ON THE BALL
Current PM returned agreement for freedom
IMPUNITY
One roaming in path like a big cat
LEONINE
Cat spoiled with bream and seafood
CRABMEAT
Young lover, little doll?
TOYBOY
Lie with gusto outrageously? One might
EULOGIST
Evidence of flight building up to arrival
VAPOUR TRAIL
Glass, one rolling over and over
TUMBLER
Trade in obsolete coins?
EXCHANGE
What will encourage change for litmus? Iodine
STIMULI
FAUST BRIAN PUT TOGETHER WITHOUT LEADING NOTES, LIKE BERG?
AUSTRIAN
Staff repel son fraudulently claiming compensation, finally
PERSONNEL
Complain when Poe’s end’s lost literary raven
GRIP
Adopt American English
USE
Picked up uniform getting highly promoted?
UPRAISED
Region around northern amphitheatre
ARENA
Calmly put new pen in carrier
TRANQUILLY
Preserve hot water?
JAM
Restyle complex shortly
TERSELY
Supposed bird’s denying exclamation after hours in Poe
PHOENIX
Parrot sprang completely upwards
ROSELLA
Quiet increasingly embarrassed evidence destroyer?
SHREDDER
Boring group made to assemble at home
flat-pack
University representative broadcast in sound
UNIMPAIRED
Female in metallic fabric, but not good for ex?
OLD FLAME