The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 12 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Archdeacon always displaying specious refinement VENEER
Throw drunkard over top of seawall TOSS
Off on holiday here, stuck originally between two short men? STANSTED
Originally living under tree, like a wolf LUPINE
Artist is easy at first to uplift RAISE
Ditzy type can test briar, surprisingly SCATTERBRAIN
Plainly written name in iced cake EN CLAIR
Part of vital passage where island crop is transported SPINAL CORD
Boat race oddly grips one — like spectacular flying! AEROBATIC
Reportedly how one may ill-treat a dog? WHIPPET
Caterpillar food? GRUB
Plant listening device in pub, catching English bête noire BUGBEAR
Innovators recycling DNA at grave avant-garde
Sweet, part of lunch occasionally? CHOC
Imagine no end of malice against one guru ENVISAGE
Parrot originally making a sound like a crow MACAW
Stop-go manoeuvre in snow STEM TURN
Detention of gunman finally in act of disposing of body INTERNMENT
Fairly broad bowl used by women’s organisation WIDISH
Thriller turned out down in hut WHODUNNIT
Astute woman in outskirts of Coventry CANNY
Poet in turn welcomed by fat cat LEOPARD
Extraordinary claims surrounding university entertainment MUSICAL
Old ship’s slow movement leaving loch ARGO
What we may have on our mind before work? PREOCCUPATION
Possible source of Conference’s sparkling repartee PEAR TREE
Avoided players given cards at ground ESCHEWED
Guards losing head finding gates, perhaps ENTRIES
Unusual exam conceals one trap ORIGINAL
Naive, taking no coin to pub INNOCENT
Extremely dodgy, unpleasant line of hereditary rulers DYNASTY
Shape up to buy a suitcase GET A GRIP
At a certain angle, church is gleaming RADIANCE
Heavenly body in need of a man-made hormone STEROID