The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 22

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