The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Vegetable eaten at first in Pennsylvania PEA
Timely preparation for retreat into immorality PROVIDENCE
Have forty winks before noon? No, twelve DOZEN
Extra publicity academic add-on
Primates coming from aristocracy, duke being one LORIS
Initially how any respectable girl makes a wind instrument HARMONICA
Last words to sailor recalled? It’s not ringing a bell rat-a-tat
Class extremely impressive in glasses SPECIES
Men turned against officers, absurdly over-decorated ROCOCO
Start to consult adviser, making small boat CORACLE
Poisonous plant identified by male sailor MANDRAKE
Tease husband in popular eating-place CHAFF
Example of fashionable attitude INSTANCE
Volunteers six fur wraps in compound to control bleeding? vitamin k
Institute legal proceedings against university in Home Counties SUE
Vehicle used on farm? About right CART
Hate crime: case for officer ABHOR
Trendy group securing start of county cricket, perhaps INSECT
Superior toy, it hit you, not quite made as required hoity-toity
Military command point indeed abandoned eyes left
Possesses objects Henry lost in battle HASTINGS
Dazed state disorientating Proust STUPOR
Snowstorm initially battering reptile, it’s said BLIZZARD
Depart hurriedly, biting insect being heard FLEE
Old women graduates containing wild country spirit BABUSHKAS
About to find out what’s for afters? CRUMBLE
Refined European press chief POLISHED
Post aperitif, initially produce eggs and a rice dish JAMBALAYA
Council promotes area for outing JAUNT
Female metalworker in once besieged city LADYSMITH
Valladolid miss some half-dozen international backs INEZ
Herb such as sage, mostly one appearing in meadow LEWISIA
Time to go back and make improvements EDIT
Unsuitable environment for Republican poet BARD
Illness doctor met in LA AILMENT
Character no longer granted a service THORN
Fairly rich source in need of attention well-to-do
Pickle bottles tavern put out again REPUBLISH
Eg Sikes’s account BILL
Cool, running water, for mud-lover HIPPO
Eager to express grief KEEN
Popular woman’s appeal to succeed INHERIT