The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 03 24

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