The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 03 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Excellent man on island holiday good friday
US dustbins found in carwash can stink! ASHCANS
Colossal, as is star’s study? ASTRONOMICAL
Doting fan has circuit to follow LAPDOG
Condition of rugby forward attracting gossip LOCKJAW
Missing centrepiece of meals, hurried for a big shop SUPERSTORE
A single voracious fish announced, one demanding huge interest? loan shark
Nocturnal creature, European, eaten by man GENET
Taxis to join up, moving about in proximity JUXTAPOSITION
Diarmuid, Irishman holding back what’s in platinum alloy? IRIDIUM
African winger to go round, arrowing crosses over: just headers TOURACO
Contrived paintings, one functionary’s short of ARTIFICIAL
Shot leaving car at home here? on drive
Lampoons SNP logo: a fish, oddly SPOOFS
What was for writing in quiz, mostly fifty-fifty QUILL
Gorky’s words of wisdom? MAXIM
Potty is available for president MADISON
Sluggishly, and awfully idly, going round Australia DOZILY
Colour of a courtyard, mainly AQUA
For carnivore, flesh: let me see a kilo being eaten MEERKAT
Tug, small, for US nationals YANKS
PM’s corrupt payouts AUTOPSY
Evasively holding up entry permit VISA
Backchat? It’s marginal LIP
Deft, I drew out tangle drift-weed
It can produce regenerated tail, no trouble NEWT
Arab is soon to return OMANI
Pal mob’s jostling showing sangfroid APLOMB
Demanding some coffee INSTANT
What may cover grave at heart of chapel? EPITAPH
Lift raincoat to find part of shaft CAM
Spare place finally accepted by officer not attached to body EXTRACORPOREAL
Who in class knows what’s said by gunman? hands up
WI location: BA has to carry mum BAHAMAS
Miss is fanatical, grabbing ring AVOID
Russian conductor of choir provost put right ROSTROPOVICH
Significance of ring, perhaps, and why it isn’t answered engaged signal
Counters a disease vector, cutting off half ABACI