The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 04 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Travelling like men and woman from Battersea, maybe KENNELMAID
A case of champagne? Great! ACE
A dish — such as curry? HOT STUFF
Christmas lunch? It didn’t go down too well TURKEY
Councillor stupidly alarmed? Not at first ALDERMAN
Cunning scheme making you gasp WHEEZE
Depict duke fighting back DRAW
Doled out by Royal Engineers, or kept back? RESERVED
Excite female anger FIRE
Exercises, so ready for trip to Cuba? PESO
Fly around Pole? That’s a joke JEST
Handle force in Panama perhaps HAFT
Honour half-cut Venetian judge VENERATE
Idiotic order to a chap facing bull TOREADOR
In recession, LA rents rise rapidly SPIRAL
Join American in Florence on vacation FUSE
Long to finish early in 2022 perhaps YEAR
Nervously edge near deserter RENEGADE
Safe place for Hardy heroine to cross river FORTRESS
Spike article about king PIERCE
What about grabbing old garden tool? HOE
The Spanish invested in wine for drinks cabinet. CELLARET
Standard document variously biased towards graduate PRO FORMA
Stage dance sequence STEP
Scriptures record one saint taking off shortly EPISTLES
Regularly reuse, in gym, a training shoe ESPADRILLE
Ready to support service for card users CASHBACK
Queen bearing grand letters exits EGRESSES
Place in office on public view lately? INSTATE
Overburdened boat crew outwardly united WEIGHTED
Licence not paid for by government, we're told free rein
Hastily shift marsh plant RUSH
Current motorway schedule easily followed? IMITABLE
Be like a son avoiding mass again RESEMBLE
As nice as Ritz's top cocktail ARSENIC
Aforementioned copper since retired SAID
Adult follows mounted troops moving part of generator ARMATURE
Old nationalist boycotts strike, run internally BLACKSHIRT
Start of Lennon's Imagine reworked, conveying modern message EMAILING
Snooty Isabella did appear in part la-di-da