The Times Cryptic 2021 06 08 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Stinking row	RANK
Recoil, but ultimately accept coarse cotton fabric	WINCEYETTE
Rover knocking back pint, perhaps, during game, informally	FREEBOOTER
See eager sailor painting yacht first of all	ESPY
Stable establishment	FIRM
Working American’s responsibility	ONUS
Beloved Bambi perhaps being heard	DEAR
Carol wants love first and last, being unattached	SINGLE
Charlie has new pastime in temporary accommodation?	CAMPSITE
Gradually decreasing sound at end of recording	TAPERING
Harmful recreational drug is ordered	BADE
Having crossed valley, Maureen and Edward sat	MODELLED
Islanders queue to enter HQ	BALINESE
Item of office equipment is essential, needed by firm's bosses	KEYBOARD
Look for building to accommodate any number	HUNT
Poet who lives in a small community in Rome?	POPE
Reginald (vicar?) upset church worker	VERGER
Report of a snow leopard being broadcast	ANNOUNCE
Shine, getting fantastic result	LUSTRE
Small reptile spotted on American plant	CROCUS
Upper-class fool in group of soldiers?	UNIT
Pretext contributing to extensive ill-feeling	VEIL
Popular book in French is small, digested by beauty, 21	BESTSELLER
Name Alice’s illustrator talked of after church anniversary	CENTENNIAL
Mop Cornish sailor used?	SWAB
Merchandise finally put in place in an Irishman’s warehouse	REPOSITORY
Long-time heretic, one replacing a surgeon	VETERINARIAN
Long garment gnome shortened	MAXI
Leader of infantry escorted back, carrying a standard	IDEAL
Humble worker in pub, taking it over under a false name	INCOGNITO
Greek character left? Terrible time for a crusade!	PILGRIMAGE
Extravagant? Not in an army corps	OUTRE
Encouragement given by nice vet in novel	INCENTIVE
Doubts young woman revealed about donating	MISGIVINGS
Dedicated duke eclipsed by English management group	COMMITTEE
Craftswoman’s burden, securing copper disc	SCULPTRESS
Aussie screecher giving girl a headache initially	GALAH
Absorption transforming a Latin mission endlessly	ASSIMILATION
A couple of notes of little distinction	so-so
People on forums having no time for puzzles	POSERS
Winding canal I've found in foreign city	VALENCIA

Stinking row

RANK

Recoil, but ultimately accept coarse cotton fabric

WINCEYETTE

Rover knocking back pint, perhaps, during game, informally

FREEBOOTER

See eager sailor painting yacht first of all

ESPY

Stable establishment

FIRM

Working American’s responsibility

ONUS