The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 03 08

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