The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 12 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
CONSTANT CONTRIBUTOR TO EMPLOY ALUMNI LOYAL
Face leader avoiding furious debate DIALECTIC
Constant frost beginning to abate in peninsula CRIMEA
Karate instructor is seen getting beaten up SENSEI
Coward say to strike out verse from fictional work NOEL
Players, being experts, restricting lock ACTRESSES
Awards zero marks OSCARS
Fast runner — he holds a record at first HARE
Very soft bread dipped in gravy? SOP
Irish speaker’s turn of phrase in heavy metal IRIDIUM
Salvage works outside small desert city LAS VEGAS
Press cavalry to provide engine once IRON HORSE
Intolerant people try to get involved in scraps BIGOTS
Sailor originally rowed into state by river MARINER
Run out, suspicious about stone platform ROSTRUM
Country cottage: one having to stoop? BOWER
Slump, depressed, next to item in playground DOWNSWING
Dismiss from racecourse, days later red-card
Crime of passion is initially risqué PIRACY
Where Joan of Arc died is in question AT STAKE
One covering couples in car damaged in New York? INSURANCE POLICY
No-account Roman historian's religious book TITUS
Church on rocky outcrop set ablaze TORCH
Various different means of being delivered SAVIOUR
One marks (twice) poems ending in sentiment? Shameless! IMMODEST
Sport: tired, endlessly WEAR
A long time mostly producing fodder FORAGE
Fellow venturing to unseat last bureaucrat MANDARIN
Charlie smuggled by decoy for ill-gotten gains LUCRE
It's painful parking after fitness centre closes early GYP
Gallon consumed by renowned pilot Harry BADGER
Bond needed in companies' crowdfunding ESCROW
Vet tailed by vehicle is cut up CARVE
Make saint transgress, coming about in boat CANONISE
Patriarch against wearing Hawaiian garland LEVI
When shattered, I forgot to strive for success GO FOR IT
Island force caught up in attack: be shocked HAVE A FIT
A boxer good at putting up a guard? WATCHDOG