The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Gangster invites in composer briefly for a drink CAPPUCCINO
Male newlywed, an islander HEBRIDEAN
Moving quietly, preparing cell for raver? PADDING
Woman beginning to enjoy article going north ENA
Speak badly of wound one can’t directly see? BACKBITE
Flask makes a come-back RETORT
One who kills a couple of donkeys at home? ASSASSIN
Suck up spicy taste, not liked initially CURRY FAVOUR
BLOKE DIGESTING BOOKS OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT NATURE? EROTIC
Pierce page with what one is writing with? PINK
Seabird using the front regularly TERN
Liable for flat PRONE
A team only Mancunians originally saw? AXIOM
SUPPLY DAUGHTER WITH ENTERTAINMENT FUND
X, cold greeting CHI
Box tree, in part TRUNK
SMALL NUMBER WITH SATISFACTORY HIDEAWAY NOOK
Fashionable northern lodging-place INN
Unavailing, nursing sick criminal VILLAIN
Unproductive peer, by the sound of it BARREN
Employees tire first, running banner up this? FLAGSTAFF
Underground worker arresting a Republican sailor MARINER
Old-fashioned bloke in sheltered inlet COVE
No science subjects mean breaking into so much laughter FINE ARTS
... no bias, please write with care OPEN MIND
Religious drama; suggesting calmer one? MIRACLE PLAY
Heard song before in poem ERE
Angry mule, for example CROSS
How you choose a fabric .. AT WILL
Sorcery may concern criminal NECROMANCY
Spend a very long time finding way through building? PASSAGE
Round Australia drink and fruit lifted author EMILE ZOLA
Make incomprehensible poem after being regularly crazy in the head ENCODE
Music to make nanny’s companion seriously disturbed? ROCKABILLY
Stars constantly yattering about Brazilian port ORION
SUPPORTING MEMBER MAKING US SMILE BROADLY BEAM
Capital fellow, the Italian ace! MANILA
Foreign banker puts a lot of money on old computer POTOMAC
Bachelor, fairly flabby, like a cartoon colonel? BLIMPISH
Coming to an end of atonement, assuming the lead in reparations EXPIRATION
Big beast thus disposed of? BISON
With frequency an old don drifts into sleep LAND OF NOD
Futile, abandoning ship in Merseyside port BOOTLE
Extremely foul tramp’s lost outside ULTRA
To assemble is a fag ROLL UP
Weatherproof coat a nosy person talked of? PARKA
This time holding run, coming back exhausted WORN
Thrashing learner restricted by deficiency FLAILING
Strange lot, if in thin wrapping TINFOIL
Permission to make tracks? LEAVE
Mass of rock coming from left? TOR
Two features of cricket take too long OVERRUN
Swill round, swallowing only in extremis? That’s grotesque GARGOYLE
Love to interrupt endlessly stroppy dancers BOLSHOI
One may produce milk, haphazardly as I infer FRIESIAN
Consumed a bit of pie at Enfield EATEN
Long journey that may encounter a hitch? HIKE