The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 02 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
One very upset about commercial describing food prepared beforehand oven-ready
Cheerful message received: it's a flag JOLLY ROGER
Remarkably regal composer ELGAR
Scent country has shackled newspaper FRAGRANCE
Nut on beam in engine part CRANKSHAFT
Night before always short EVE
Newspaper crime THEFT
Fried food more reckless? RASHER
Food, say, ending in dressing EGG
Falsehood largely inaccurate, erroneous, first of all LIE
Dull outside broadcast TEDIOUS
Blokes, great nuisance MENACE
Zero put on tax? One at work gives sustained applause OVATION
Where democracy initially denied, draws lots OODLES
Soak in spirit and ignite meat in empty furnace FLAMBE
Tease child KID
Reader worried by Burke or Hare finally choosing body ELECTORATE
Not feeling pressure in extremely close finish DEAD HEAT
Mystical system Henry introduced to eccentric Soho type THEOSOPHY
Under contract finally, see pretty amazing old print worker TYPESETTER
Voter, English speaker ELECTOR
Awfully bad line, message ultimately unsubstantiated DENIABLE
A nut winning AHEAD
A little superhero me, original Casanova ROMEO
Being old man, large ruffian should contain reduced crowd FATHERHOOD
Abrasive former student one's interrupted ALUMINA
Impact one expects to have? BUMP
Reportedly, team sounded exasperated SIGHED
Strangler's device police informer carries round NOOSE
Cry out in sorrow when displacing back joint KNEE
Cheeses spoken of for picnic BREEZE
A leader upset about western state DELAWARE
Unstructured mass survey needs sending back to party DOLLOP
I'd turned medieval guitar's tone down DILUTE
Comes in, displacing monarch, to find wooden characters ENTS
Building old and as you see unfinished OASTHOUSE