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The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 01
The Times Cryptic
Clue
Answer
DRY PERIOD QUICKLY OVER
SEC
Cleaner, one in tears after reprimands
CARPET SWEEPER
Big bird, head hidden in fear
TITANIC
Son has a nasty argument: he may be suited here
SAVILE ROW
Place to learn mawkishness, a thing of legend
UNICORN
People following old lady in bleak, poor state
BANANA REPUBLIC
Hotel is extraordinarily unfriendly
HOSTILE
Judging is exasperating
TRYING
Drive into Split, fencing off some land
rear-end
Rubbish a true novel writer
LITTERATEUR
OPENS MOUTH, BUT RUNS OUT OF FRUIT
GAPES
Summon up gripping excerpt of heavenly event
ECLIPTIC
Charm of mummy’s bed
MASCOT
Party food is cold? Not entirely
DISCO
Display burden on one vehicle
AIR TAXI
Outline of waist, flipping round figure
TWO
Untidy woman in low bar was first to drink litres
DISHEVELLED
Bung soldier up into position
SPIGOT
Packed, to be on the safe side
IN CASE
An entertaining banker's nickname
AGNOMEN
Stop running and stand in the market
STALL
Risk screening for one key film
THE GREAT ESCAPE
MEAT COOKING IN OVENS
VENISON
Communist rejected by town
DERBY
Online magazine keeps running commercial
ECONOMIC
Bee wings in August flutter
BAT
Not so bad, I’ll wager
BETTER
LEADING, AND WINNING BY THIS MARGIN?
AHEAD
Disavowals from radical or a centrist
RETRACTIONS
Maybe phrase looks wrong on page
PERHAPS
Put pins around seat covers tailor's edging
STRADDLE
Dressed down in the past, Conservative kept out of sight
CHIDDEN
Roughly treated a cold — a virus right in a bodily system
CARDIOVASCULAR
MONARCH VISITING SKYE, PERHAPS, BACK IN CASTLE
ELSINORE
Large fish seen in Gibraltar pond
TARPON
University opens a study for poet
AUDEN
Blossom beginning to fall down
FLOWER
Historian, no end of social climber
IVY
Tomb’s dreadful curse — help!
SEPULCHRE
Make cryptic once out of French
ENCODE
Agreeing place for plug on the radio
IN SYNC
Who and what, say, could produce tergiversation
interrogatives
Given a role, still on the field
IN PLAY
PRESSURE BY CHIEF BARRISTER PRESENTING CASE
PLEADER
STUFF IN VACUOUS POLICY PAPERS IS A WONDER
PYRAMID
Ship's cook?
STEAMER
A BIT DEPRESSED, HAVING INFLAMMATION
WHITLOW
The French forward is wearing old lady's slip
MALAPROPISM
Such a comic not suitable for sitcom?
stand-up
Dancers lie at first in bed, pectorals rippling
CORPS DE BALLET
Figure's appeal, eating junk
STATUE
Give some relief to setter rejected by editor?
EMBOSS