The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 11 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Old Royal Marine probing grandma's regional dialect NORMAN
Response to expulsion by university admitting not so much bless you
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
Reasonable to circulate learner's talent FLAIR
Fashionable electric vehicles backed SMART
A bishop trapped by two men in tangled vegetation CHAPARRAL
Drugs making you a prima donna? HEROINE
Music-maker’s poetic invocation of lover in recital? OBOE
Possibly bitter about China supporter befriender
Sinister Tory lord returning at start of year CREEPY
Aquatic conveyance right behind RAFT
Christmas delivery vehicle butcher mentioned SLEIGH
Pictures usually seen here right inside cooking area GALLERY
Regret rugby game's ending RUE
Polish in command initially on ancient boundary RUBICON
Alcoholic drink disappeared, tipped up — around two gallons EGGNOG
Beginner abandons most demanding challenge EVEREST
Lawgiver playing part in generalissimo’s escape MOSES
Point above large church somewhere in central London WESTMINSTER
Holy man in French island uprising ELI
Tall animal's error crossing one river GIRAFFE
Head office exploiting position in Barbican perhaps HOUSING ESTATE
Modest business year COY
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
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
Daughter in wig perhaps, having dropped an E? DRUGGED
Layabout upset by occasionally chaotic dancers BOLSHOI
Children resulting from affair? ISSUE
Greek character runs house RHO
Section of steel finial small and delicate ELFIN
The Spanish bend part of arm ELBOW
Pre-adolescent child, affectedly quaint, developed anger TWEENAGER
Dull floor covering MAT