The Times Cryptic 2020 09 23 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Report of sludge in one of three rivers	OUSE
Greek mountain’s huge appeal	OSSA
Bloke keen, some say, to establish wine shop	BODEGA
Maybe Chinese festival involving English sailors	EASTERNER
A second son, one behaving foolishly	ASS
Ignorant, but not tight, do we hear?	UNTAUGHT
Motto found in record kept by hospital	SLOGAN
Fellow keeping oxen at first for beef	MOAN
In Tiepolo, a notable advance	LOAN
Outstanding old part of house	OWING
Uncouth old swimmer crossing centre of bay	OAFISH
Most balanced article written in small refuge	SANEST
Expression wears thin for listeners	PHRASE
Fish deft anglers catch easily to begin with	DACE
Remorseful American hiding in an outhouse	ASHAMED
Scottish festival always associated with chap minding pigs?	HOGMANAY
Makes start, sadly, as scourge of workforce?	TASKMASTER
Endlessly casting about, catching high-class marine creature	SEA URCHIN
Join a former partner collecting news	ANNEX
Spooky entertainer left president following golf	GHOSTLIKE
Italian poet’s heartless noble	ARISTO
Speak indistinctly, losing marks at first, say	UTTER
Envisage instruments originally employed in Enigma variation	IMAGINE
Empress’s army once carrying nerve gas	TSARINA
Discharge former partner in robust health	EXHALE
Wavering of ambassador initially inept in post	HESITATION
Suppress comedian’s joke	GAG
Fellow engaged in moral philosophy	RALPH
It thus set up a Roman port	OSTIA
Quiet girl on Irish river	SHANNON
Track taking dog across river	TRAIL
Common old man fed by priest before fast	PREVALENT
Opposed to books being dumped in main road	ANTI
Storyteller from Scottish island returning to centre of Kinross	NARRATOR
Like birds initially imported in a commercial vehicle	AVIAN
US politician caught deserter at end of rally	DEMOCRAT
Lothario, perhaps? More like Solomon crossing eastern state	WOMANISER
Fish on estate, perhaps, getting floral decoration	GARLAND
Insect originally good at digging for lost young?	GADFLY
Finally he hangs out somehow in Japanese governor’s office	shogunate
Scorer’s stock stories about start of match	SMETANA
Doddery old bachelors originally living in outskirts of Whitby	WOBBLY
Fashionable cosmetic preparation for one vocalising in church	INTONER
She was Boaz’s wife? Pity	RUTH
Half of them sketch vaguely from beginning to end	THROUGHOUT
Bitter woman coming in to do a song	SCATHING
City came first, securing last of five goals ultimately	LEEDS
Hindu queen administered island	RANI
Resident in Hampshire briefly entertaining a little	INHABITANT
Italian citizens coming from same line somehow	MILANESE
Cockney building boundary round field, moving slowly?	EDGING
Quiet, more colourful piece of office equipment	SHREDDER
Communicate with bishop over satisfactory primer	TEXTBOOK
Shade used in houses regularly	HUE
Aegean island some seek ostentatiously	KOS
General deliveries a couple of Liberals assembled	OVERALL
Instrument produced by graduates thus performing	BASSOON

Report of sludge in one of three rivers

OUSE

Greek mountain’s huge appeal

OSSA

Bloke keen, some say, to establish wine shop

BODEGA

Maybe Chinese festival involving English sailors

EASTERNER

A second son, one behaving foolishly

ASS

Ignorant, but not tight, do we hear?

UNTAUGHT