The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 02 24

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