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The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 08 18
The Times Cryptic
Clue
Answer
Female holding up opening part of choral piece
STROPHE
Scarcity of boxes containing pictures, with 100 missing
SPARSENESS
Run small van in which it is easy to crash?
SCAMPER
Late up, along with others
ET AL
Something left out of old assignment
OMISSION
Office admirer going round old city
BUREAU
Inventor working after team set up
EDISON
Being incapable when about to drink alcohol is not to be tolerated
UNSUPPORTABLE
Religious leader’s endless talk
RABBI
Woman certain to boot Republican out
SUE
Doctor has a duty in time of want
DROUGHT
Alarmed, began to throttle first of louts
STARTLED
Reportedly chose chap from Scotland
PICT
Using electronics is old hat on board — rubbish diode, ultimately
solid-state
Saintly men let loose in touching way
SENTIMENTALLY
The French irritated by English game
LACROSSE
Northern city shows the way, I hear
LEEDS
Nothing in pub for a snuffling customer?
BOAR
Money invested in Moscow perhaps
CAPITAL
Unseated by horse, one the Queen’s sat on, reportedly?
THROWN
Bowler, perhaps, English cannot stand
HATE
Test 50 per cent of people as a warning
EXAMPLE
Englishman down under employing cleaner from the east
POM
Note in race 100% rising for near winner
runner-up
Grab a customer pinching calculator
ABACUS
Drinking and engaging in amorous activity?
NECKING
Bans others spoiling something in the woods
BASSET HORN
Old judge will imprison one, that’s clear
EXONERATE
Do they help one see the details?
SPECS
English following Queen close in strange Brexit vote?
REFERENDUM
The drugs said to bring you comfort?
EASE
Uncommunicative soldier
PRIVATE
Reconstructed by police with newer aid to facial definition
EYEBROW PENCIL
Boats carrying a number of instruments
TUBAS
People very angry about new family
MANKIND
Law about British billions remains
RUBBLE
Walk home
PAD
Bird’s endless murmur
COO
Starts to take in folder in auto?
JUMP SEAT
Idiot half-cut lodger attacking one?
MUGGER
Boisterous girl getting home by boat
HOYDEN
Fancy the man supporting wife
WHIM
Infantile mistake about an extra cut
BABYISH
Attempt to capture tree’s branching pattern
TRACERY
Reason one’s seeking carpet dealer’s style?
FORMAT
Low-down about right pain producing wine
GRENACHE
Undecided and nervous about tango
NEUTRAL
Coming in to arrange licence dealing with spirits
ANGELIC
Each cubicle is deficient in oxygen
BOTH
Two imbeciles at home revealing killer
ASSASSIN
Amateur plays Nero in disastrous fashion
LAYPERSON
Expert adviser is relentless about fuel regularly being wasted
CONSULTANT
One teaching acting ability that moves people?
STAGECOACH
Pub’s motto, possibly?
BOTTOMS UP
Requests jobs taking no time at all
ASKS
Typical boys’ toys — racing’s ending in terrible tragedy
GADGETRY