The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 01

crossword answers
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