The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 01 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Row about granny’s first big cat TIGER
Drive away reformed killer, perhaps, wiser after case dismissed EXORCISE
Dull piece of floor-covering MAT
Titled person needing oxygen in Greater London borough BARONET
Go free from Baltic? ZING
Headless rodent by barrier in European capital AMSTERDAM
Standard, one consistently falling short COMMON
Capital made of gossip — PC covered in shame panama city
Fellow doctor at fight COMBAT
Old sailor wearing light, tight garment LEOTARD
Close relative runs into trouble BROTHER
Poet’s light, mostly obscene book day-lewis
Animated cow in garden to barge in after hesitation ERMINTRUDE
Come to a halt by front of pub in Ireland EXPIRE
Approaches engendered by certain scorers? OVERTURES
WHERE CRICKETERS PRACTISE CATCHES NETS
Day trip in need of whacking great deposit pay dirt
Do reduce your litter! sell a pup
Evidently need oil pipe SQUEAK
Tips on weapons hardware, so varied ARROWHEADS
Helper on vessel talked of for a number of years DECADE
Part of circle primarily haunting gateway, perhaps ARCH
President Lincoln’s tip for second son? ABEL
Stiffened fabric a couple of male animals required BUCKRAM
Torment omnivorous nocturnal mammal BADGER
Musician’s device satisfied small number in capital METRONOME
Elders quietly replaced by trees next to railway PRESBYTERY
Amphibian originally featuring in sci-fi film EFT
What shoppers do after failure to find cooking ingredient LEMON GRASS
Learner in group lacking illumination UNLIT
Graduate getting zero on a stiff paper MANILA
Flexible individual initially visiting ruined castle ELASTIC
1000, say; slightly more ones and zeroes MEGABIT
Succeed ultimately, say, as painter and sculptor DEGAS
Expert identifying species of flatfish DAB
Singer in bar given banknote, we hear COUNTERTENOR
Vague desire maybe to get husband for Yankee lady at last wishy-washy
Old sailor damages hot saline boggy area salt marsh
Force king to accept a top politician’s charter map-maker
Back firm briefly employing family member SECOND COUSIN