The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 03

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Measure of liquid bridge-player put in large vessel GALLEON
Glow, good meal being cooked GLEAM
Concept everyone associated at first with papers IDEA
President at bar, next to a flower arrangement IKEBANA
Very, very indifferent so-so
Podginess of English male with good French cape EMBONPOINT
An entrance in stone AGATE
Entice police chief initially developing freedom in lines POETIC LICENCE
Loyalty from a duke thus, protecting queen ADHERENCE
Pair with vision looked for victims PREYED
Work with miners cutting top of oak tree LABURNUM
Stupid aspersion in speech, gradually losing force DIMINUENDO
Meaningfully, I get close to den IN EARNEST
It’s measured along a meridian, in the main NAUTICAL MILE
Very excited in the past by golf AGOG
Fairly sour press employee caught dipping into grant SUBACID
These mountains tending to shake? ROCKY
Abjure wickedness, as casual visitor does DROPS IN
Pounds invested in women’s area in New York district HARLEM
By its very nature top fiasco is disastrous IPSO FACTO
Garment, new, shoplifted? STOLEN
Man following retired woman’s turn of phrase IDIOM
Person investigating an American man on board? CHECKER
Small team specially tasked to take the back off? DETAIL
Woman runs business, one conveying messages by air CARRIER PIGEON
Overheard to whimper like a baby, being cross? MULE
Cook slowly, throwing in a bit of lard? Less fat SLIMMER
A French vessel in sea, lacking identification UNMARKED
Wasted time supporting unmarried female writer MISSPENT
Prosaic concern, not on law matter-of-fact
Crane-like bird Turkish commander found by main road AGAMI
Produce bypassing a Mediterranean island CRETE
Wiping light cover DUSTING
Took risks — kicked bucket across entrance to crescent DICED
Some Syrian drowned valley RIA
Distinctive theory is mathematician’s first ISM
Relax, unwell after church CHILL
Touring Rhode Island, old lover carries minute scarlet flag ORIFLAMME
Very thin ale sent for replacement LEANEST
Even I find this creature fantastic YETI
County is grand nearly the whole time GALWAY
Fellow in doorway — painting, possibly? PORTRAYAL
Barbed prong finally penetrating judge of advanced years JAGGED
Data about popular drugs STATINS
Uncontrolled emotion blowing up this year HYSTERIA
Union leader in public vehicle getting over a shock TRAUMA
Naval officer, one with two daughters in motor yacht MIDDY
Unemployed debt-collector bitten by ruddy insect! REDUNDANT
Seriousness of natural attraction GRAVITY
Thin dress material poet picked up TOILE
Accord Henry a new position in church ARCHDEACONRY
Shortly advise dairy product BRIE
Crazy old-timers aim to be long remembered immortalised
One demonstrated a crystalline compound ISATIN