The Times Cryptic 2022 03 18 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Right exit to turn back?	REGRESS
Scripture? There’s tons in Koranic verse	SUTRA
Serving in women’s clink: it is sort of character-forming	joined-up writing
Tern — ocean’s glory	sea swallow
Vessel’s cook found in Providence	FRIGATE
A native of Rouen, maybe, and not an island	NORMAN
Attitude I put on for sea god	POSEIDON
Black attire, we hear, for early part of day	MORNING
Cry when leaping damaged minor ego	GERONIMO
Dance Armstrong was first to do?	MOONWALK
Dedicate energy to volume, edited after reflecting	DEVOTE
Dull one might say “welcome”	MAT
Fairy king from Borneo originally	OBERON
High-flying singer’s frolic	LARK
Little devil messed up Dee’s hamper	IMPEDE
Mansion I refurbished a problem after retiring?	INSOMNIA
Mexico’s right, somehow, dispatching spirits	EXORCISM
Moderate rage	TEMPER
Mounts first of rings in flexible pipes	HORSES
Snowmobile soon contracted to carry child	SKIDOO
Stella met hysteria, displaying jewel	AMETHYST
Syrupy stuff daughter finds agreeable	GOOD
Twelve? Almost nobody	NOON
Party involving upper-class singers?	DUO
James A Stone	JASPER
Involve volunteers in overturning occupation	ENTAIL
In favour of tirade against underground being filled to bursting	PROTUBERANT
Horse taking a long time over race	HARE
Herald sure to be transported	SPELLBOUND
Friend, in a major way	AMI
Fanciful female academic’s claim	PROFESS
Encountered one returning couple	ITEM
Canadian’s box of beer, whiskey, old and fine used during trip	two-four
British in a bad way under rank future legislation?	private bill
Awfully base breaking in to dishonestly alter lawyer’s record	CASEBOOK
Doyle disposed to sing high	YODEL
Rail about large university’s power	FLUENCE
A distanced gesture — as holding in anger is	AIR KISS
Area: mountain road, long time closed, I book	A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Engineers note combine getting crop up again	re-emerge
Iron amulet needs resetting for gemstone	TOURMALINE
A wee pest deforming garden plant	SWEET PEA
Emotional about clash over a state of India	GUJARAT

Right exit to turn back?

REGRESS

Scripture? There’s tons in Koranic verse

SUTRA

Serving in women’s clink: it is sort of character-forming

joined-up writing

Tern — ocean’s glory

sea swallow

Vessel’s cook found in Providence

FRIGATE

A native of Rouen, maybe, and not an island

NORMAN