The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 10 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
What makes ham have harmful ingredient! VENOM
Small fish producing appalling smell STENCH
Vital Geordie heads for Fleet Street? NEEDED
For example, Oscar’s sense of self-importance EGO
Girl unknown in part of New England MAXINE
Blended whiskey to crack open as roast’s cooked? INWOVEN
Maybe fighter’s fitness trainer who is unusually small AIRWORTHINESS
Knight leaves Scottish island for western US state IOWA
Necromancer’s errors unexpectedly overwhelming church SORCERER
Catch sight of article, displaying fury SEETHING
Box only initially missing from humorous drawing CARTON
Letter abroad recalled very different times OMEGA
Dimwit’s stupefying drug DOPE
Slow mover upsetting to Tories TORTOISE
Stale old joke involving golden-brown horse CHESTNUT
Willing to support objective when mate approaches? ENDGAME
Draw out? It’s not allowed, we hear ELICIT
Poet, second Graves, maybe, eclipsing Smart SWINBURNE
Build hotel by Yankee Stadium’s entrance? Irritation all round PHYSIQUE
Piece of furniture you reportedly can set up UNIT
Cut out for duty EXCISE
Direct course of male ox STEER
Ready to accept English chef’s first guide to food preparation RECIPE
Hang about for hearing, having influence WEIGHT
Woman’s husband entering compound ESTHER
Country having long border where you find it YEMEN
Failure overtakes our team again? LAPSUS
A head turning to a starchy tuber POTATO
Inflorescence identified by Tom and family CATKIN
Time to take in film, ensconced in Peg’s sofa tete-a-tete
Buffer created by E European monarch POLISHER
Self-satisfied, giving sweets up SMUG
Mind vehicle at end of avenue CARE
Lock where key may be found a hindrance RINGLET