The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 11 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Modest business year COY
Head office exploiting position in Barbican perhaps HOUSING ESTATE
Tall animal's error crossing one river GIRAFFE
Those curious poker yarns scoundrel initially concocted nosy parkers
Examined closely, as swordfish might be? GRILLED
Hat on Yankee supporting aristocrat's football club derby county
Beginner abandons most demanding challenge EVEREST
Dull floor covering MAT
Possibly bitter about China supporter befriender
Pre-adolescent child, affectedly quaint, developed anger TWEENAGER
Christmas delivery vehicle butcher mentioned SLEIGH
A bishop trapped by two men in tangled vegetation CHAPARRAL
Polish in command initially on ancient boundary RUBICON
Lusty deb drooled horribly red-blooded
Gemstone, minute, received by dodgy dealer EMERALD
Coppers accepting a new punishment PENANCE
Ailment dispatching commanding officer? How awful! UGH
Children resulting from affair? ISSUE
Layabout upset by occasionally chaotic dancers BOLSHOI
Top-class teacher having a lie-in? ABED
Hospital doctor from triage's moving into middle of Harrow REGISTRAR
S for sovereign? head of state
Daughter in wig perhaps, having dropped an E? DRUGGED
Holy man in French island uprising ELI
Point above large church somewhere in central London WESTMINSTER
Reasonable to circulate learner's talent FLAIR
Fashionable electric vehicles backed SMART
Lawgiver playing part in generalissimo’s escape MOSES
The Spanish bend part of arm ELBOW
Section of steel finial small and delicate ELFIN
Old Royal Marine probing grandma's regional dialect NORMAN
Greek character runs house RHO
Response to expulsion by university admitting not so much bless you
Regret rugby game's ending RUE
Pictures usually seen here right inside cooking area GALLERY
Music-maker’s poetic invocation of lover in recital? OBOE
Sinister Tory lord returning at start of year CREEPY
Drugs making you a prima donna? HEROINE
Alcoholic drink disappeared, tipped up — around two gallons EGGNOG
Aquatic conveyance right behind RAFT