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The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 08 05
The Times Cryptic
Clue
Answer
Fuss about vocab omitting British fruit
AVOCADO
Second trite idea leading to derision
SCORN
Figure of male grabbed by itinerant breaking free
RHOMBOID
Sample of crystal clear powder
TALC
Got up to display national emblem
ROSE
Fish struggle to stay afloat
FLOUNDER
Final points in remit resolved
TERMINI
Country health resort, fashionable
SPAIN
Pair, ignoring me, come up with article in French
COUPLE
Almost all cheating to get European title
FRAU
Old poet in middle of school run
HORACE
Dad’s Army, right for Elvis, say?
POP STAR
A poem by Byron ultimately artless
NAIF
Rotten cricket side
OFF
Raise a second monster
COCKATRICE
End street work
STOP
Renegade can’t tour after review
TURNCOAT
Fish in catch, one monster hauled up — snapper?
CROCODILIAN
Strict order of mail train so arranged
formalisation
Stick this person in part of Sydney
BONDI
Content of book appears to be skewed in TV programme
SOAP OPERA
Credit facility line
CREASE
Time of day to return unchanged
NOON
Lapse, not bad for sailor
SIN
Maybe past worrying
TENSE
Out of bed and on one's feet, honest
UPSTANDING
Test racer smashed vehicle!
STREETCAR
Medal Regius Professor initially suggested?
PURPLE HEART
Stomach device briefly placed under jaw
GASTRIC
Batting with no indication of time, completely overwhelmed
INUNDATED
Commercial securing India’s support
AID
Recalling a number one island
IONA
Amongst pointed objects, men discover scissors
PINKING SHEARS
Skill at crossing river
ART
Like Great Bear, some mariners tell a rookie
STELLAR
Catch that's catchy?
HOOK
Try series of motorbike races, a must
GOTTA
Person taking photograph, you might say — one's spread out?
PICNICKER
Daughter with Yankee beau
DANDY
Simple piece of music couple picked up in China?
CHOPSTICKS
PM in place less cultivated?
HEATH
Welcome referring to Church the writer’s supporting
RECEIVE
Nit-picking editor briefly in small room off kitchen?
PEDANTRY
Sadly it may fall — hurry!
TEAR
A ton wasted with credit diminishing
DETRACTION
Forgo leer every so often — this one?
OGLE
Trees burning somewhere in Hampshire
ALDERSHOT
Be out longer than intended having finished taking skins up
OVERSLEEP
Something loathed in gymkhana, the mare?
ANATHEMA
Island nation never accepted ultimatum, riling union leaders
NAURU
One of those on the fiddle — and bit of a racket?
STRING
Highlights importance of introduction of safety locks
STRESSES
Large area, no doubt — maybe Asia, some suggest initially
LANDMASS
Sweetheart’s lively valley do
LADYLOVE