The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Endlessly fooling around in fun, I admit AD INFINITUM
Firmly fix hedge, trimming the top RIVET
Sailor putting scoundrel up TAR
Finish off better stand-up routine IMPROV
Wine collection merchant picked up CELLAR
Confirm aunt is at best confused SUBSTANTIATE
Hotel where there may be pie? But without fat SKINNY
Extremely dull criminal I arrested DREARIEST
Choke, spitting out large rum STRANGE
Room’s window having no frame ATTIC
PRETEND TO BE EXCITED, WASTING TIME SIMULATED
Start to plead: I must have name BEGIN
Helpful-sounding woman ADA
Call up to have a trial for City BUDAPEST
FORTUNE-TELLING CHARACTER, FANTASTIC CHIROMANTIC
Composer’s name announced HANDEL
Posh girl acquiring top-class place to eat? That’s a matter of opinion DEBATABLE
Scarper, arguing occasionally RUN
Can woman be producing children? ISSUE
One’s under canvas to relax at length EASEL
Drippy work of war artist? action painting
Manager retains old craftsman COOPER
Do wrong, offering paste, pocketing diamonds MISDO
Charlie, leaping initially into bed CLOT
ABILITY TO REASON AT THE HEART OF MI6? INTELLIGENCE
Loose woman putting last of opium in gin TRAMP
BUDDY MAYBE SHARING A LIFT IN A SORT OF TUNNEL? CARPAL
Move round bed to corner a rat TURNCOAT
Computer obsessive’s good to go — that’s scary! EEK
Inducement to serve in unhappy ship BOUNTY
Found black stuff in the street START
Working at the double, circle in all directions unaided ON ONES OWN
Stern bachelor meeting cook on vacation BACK
Go on to suffer setback YAP
Run across traveller ROVER
Very simply, the opposite of a surrender demand? HANDS DOWN
Dripping, a kind of fat SATURATED
Fix function for parent that’s boringly complicated RIGMAROLE
High-rise accommodation for social workers? ANTHILL
Party hard? What an idiot I am! DOH
Tutor upset about abuse TORTURE
Extent of responsibility left one fool struggling PORTFOLIO
Nick, dangerous chap in the main PIRATE
Patronising houri, health not suffering holier-than-thou
Cheek of son visiting famous regiment SASS
Find a description of each other planet? UNEARTH
Runs away at bedtime? LIGHTS OUT
Top driver’s support to corporation TEETOTUM
Follow only half of Marx’s doctrine DOGMA
APPEAR TO NOTICE FAVOURITISM, FINALLY SEEM
Article on drinking den for barristers? THE BAR
Vehicles going head to head at game BACCARAT
From rudely impatient indigenous people, pressure for start of entertainment CURTAIN UP
Untidy room from which Oink might emerge? PIGSTY
Illegal substance CIA once concocted COCAINE
Box female soldiers, with police car outside PANDORA