The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 05 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Stalwart keeps returning as celebrity children’s TV character fireman sam
White loaf to stop a short period of fasting ALBUMEN
Become submerged in floods in Kingston SINK
Container not motoring group’s to return CARTON
Pennant, perhaps right to be carried by older ship STREAMER
Place tart in cool PLACID
Restoration of wild rye after cover is ploughed up RECOVERY
Right argument in favour for each PROPER
Shawl auntie regularly used for greeting SALUTE
Short letter rejecting new fiction LIE
Small garden implement — what could be about a foot SHOE
Stick up letters in position POST
Stripped, going around grammes lighter BARGE
Voluntary mobile platoon capturing island OPTIONAL
Walk at a leisurely pace, missing street turn ROLL
What may contain beer — Courage, perhaps BOTTLE
Young eel abandoning lake at any time EVER
Second rate, poor Aston Villa, losing 5-1 on aggregate BALLAST
Paper copy ECHO
One used to snap and be tearful, upset by urgent news FLASHBULB
Odd or even excerpts from voluntaries OUTRE
Merchant at first devious has to promise to give change METAMORPHOSIS
Lead Civil Engineer, after promotion, getting rise ADVANCE
Lacking politeness, if innocuous — merely unsettling UNCEREMONIOUSLY
Ecstasy, see, when one’s out for a duck EVADE
Don’t strike boy in hat STETSON
See about register for US arts venue LINCOLN CENTER
Commentator’s to favour one side’s scorer LISZT
Flap in one’s in-tray to-do
Lecture man on sex — husband REITH
Flat has garden — we hear sound of bees ho-hum
Peers having come up briefly returned drunk ARISTOS
Reasons copper’s got to arrest E European dictator CEAUSESCU
Settled a selfish desire AGREED
Compelled to redo Verdi composition, finally DRIVEN
Demanding toy car HARDTOP