The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 02 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Support backing people in fierce speech DIATRIBE
Launches into reason for 27? OPENS
Confused everybody offshore? ALL AT SEA
Square, popular in Tyneside area NINE
Satisfied story is missing a show of courage METTLE
Apropos hoax, laugh, oddly reflecting “we’d give it a whirl!” hula hoop
Winger having edge on kid CHAFFINCH
Partiality shown by arts graduates around India BIAS
Bill after turning from gas is steep BATHE
Shark fighters in Jaws: film replacing a western JETS
N African king’s daughter embraced by goddess IDRIS
Game personnel in industrial heartland RUHR
Comedian’s mocking cry absorbing street JESTER
Extended call for peace involving a foreign ruler SHAH
Town near Oxford, note, toured by a major university figure ABINGDON
One moving into residence after aristocrat kept up great friendliness BONHOMIE
Ducks out of mounting charity events around university SUGAR
Physicist initially well-informed about light particle PHOTON
Correspondent’s twenty-four hours in federal jail to finish pen friend
A lot of dirt is ghastly GRIM
Saint occupying extremely religious office VESTRY
Uproar about cryptics being cut back OUTCRY
Sensible to capture pencil marking on part of avian skeleton WISHBONE
Thus having easily passed acid test, getting buzz PHONE
Some optimism returns after reflecting for a period TERM
Rector’s first boy brought in some bells for his own use? PERSONAL
Chance you usually won’t have material EARTHLY
Demanding to have top lowered, is obliged OUGHT
In agreement lasting sixty seconds, dissent’s beginning OF ONE MIND
Stringed instrument mostly good for Scottish sailor GUITAR
Last characters in church to feel godly or saintly HOLY
Maker of uniforms possibly to follow common soldiers TAILOR
Group of countries meeting slight problem separate UNHITCH