The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Support goal, heading off Arab, perhaps ENDORSE
Draw out a French novel and a couple of articles UNSHEATHE
One of many popes digesting Holy Writ slowly LENTO
By which we measure enclosed ground, attracting flak? YARDSTICK
Old lockers accommodating half of dope very well okey-dokey
Poor chap captured by Napoleonic marshal NEEDY
Tie up new horse? Risky around this northern area yorkshire moors
Irritation displayed in functions held by workers antsiness
Sound made by old Egyptian ruler’s game FARO
Food deposited in meat-safe EATS
Press lay about, spread so thinly? SPARSELY
MAKE AN ACCUSATION, USING DIGITAL MEANS? point the finger
A tendency to keep son away ABSENT
Wondering bridge player in an undistinguished crowd AWESTRUCK
A multitude in store, it’s said HORDE
UNAPPROACHABLE, LIKE A RUGBY HALF-BACK? STANDOFFISH
ILLEGALLY DUMP END OF TINY ANTENNA? fly-tip
COST OF ATTENDING CHURCH WEDDING? IT SHOULD GO TO THE STAFF SERVICE CHARGE
AN ENDLESS BORING TASK TO BE A TV PRESENTER ANCHOR
Composition in Monet’s art, for example ESSAY
Broadcaster busy emitting dangerous material RADIOACTIVE
Notice in Daily Express initially a mockery? CHARADE
PLEA TO ADD TWO POINTS TO FORMAL AGREEMENT ENTREATY
CLAIM TO BE MONARCH IN CHARGE OF A LARGE LANDMASS? AMERICA
DEPEND ENTIRELY? ONLY HALF RELY
Flower, one planted by lake in Northumberland? NILE
SUPPORTER HOLDING SEAT IS NO MINISTER BACKBENCHER
Suggestion upset rugby player, a supporter of mine pit-prop
Scatty padre loses cat LEOPARDESS
CACTUS ONLY AN ENEMY WILL IDENTIFY? NOPAL
A LINE DANCE? CONGA
Hollow space? Not out visiting South America SINUS
Express sorrow audibly, though backing Arthur C Clarke’s work? sci-fi
Scare female away? Correct RIGHTEN
Sound fellow in education primarily, one arranging courses? BRICKIE
Record one article: time for a descriptive word EPITHET
Pitiful, heartless, corrupt? Here’s a boost UPLIFT
STAGE PERFORMER UNFORTUNATELY QUITS IN REVOLT VENTRILOQUIST
Spineless fellow rejected by girl extremely bluntly namby-pamby
SEE BULLY WOUNDED: GOOD SHOT! BULLS EYE
FINE DEED, IN TRUTH FACT
Junior officer’s payment to change name SUBALTERN
Plant originally cultivated in flatter surroundings? BUTTERCUP
Detached area? I’ll say! ISLE
Cut off current, well behind time ISOLATE
Panic relating to wings at front of mansion ALARM
£51 meal, one omitting the food? LIQUID LUNCH
Wanderer Pythias’s friend recalled NOMAD
Way sailors misguidedly sit for someone like Picasso? MODERNIST
Spiteful type hosting scanty entertainment CABARET
English politician beginning to organise broadcast about stores EMPORIA
TOP-QUALITY BALL GAME BY SAILOR five-star