The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 03 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
COLD FISH? HOLD ON! CLING
Chuck beer heartily over top bouncer bungee-jumper
Crooked scheme rascal detailed SCAM
Provider of beef under an age BSE affected ABERDEEN ANGUS
Unsophisticated fictional detective picked up play on words HOMESPUN
Leader of Opposition helping to produce speech ORATION
Being broadcast? Extract from Wagnerian opera coming up ON AIR
Horrified to have a good speed limited AGHAST
Accumulate a large amount AMASS
Former partner given sufficient warning EXAMPLE
Slow learner expected to take in new chapter DUNCE
Miserable maids, mistreated, left DISMAL
Adult's complaint heard and raised grown-up
Sales pitch — or brief example PATTER
A fool for quietly producing fake news? AGITPROP
Fruit and nuts, mostly BANANA
Reject Percy, not very fashionable name SPURN
I maintain champion has lost his head UPHOLDER
Some actors opening trunk TORSO
Represent chaps holding answer MEAN
Rotten worker, curt OFFHAND
Former chief magistrate imprisoning duke for deception DODGE
Player securing fine wicket — a declaration may follow it act of war
Famous painting in oils a man vandalised MONA LISA
Informed, foremost of teachers getting on in years TOLD
Sort of figure one must reform rough girl HOURGLASS
A little fruit one’s taken into shower RAISIN
In a hurry, Harry, not having arrived in front of George HYING
Ordinary language appeared elevated on page PROSE
Pleasure-seeker's complaint involving a bad back GADABOUT
Golf club: Irish one, not English IRON
Terrible just losing face AWFUL
Follow after stolen food HOT DOG
Where book festival is anyhow being broadcast you can follow hay-on-wye
Pick out deity if name initially bandied about IDENTIFY
Birds, egg-layers for reproduction, full of goodness greylag geese
Article upset stage show's backer ANGEL