The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 04 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
It gives a false impression to one’s pupils OPTICAL ILLUSION
Conservative not happy BLUE
Tutor always holding test ORAL
Lady’s love for principal character HERO
Way to spur fish STURGEON
Humped beast city attorney found in arid surroundings DROMEDARY
Poem on river — European one ODER
Robots created by a university man at Aston originally AUTOMATA
Choose page in Old Testament OPT
Become entangled in some shrubbery MESH
Turn up in Mongolian hut, finding dairy product YOGURT
Fertilizer container, for example, hot POTASH
Issue overshadowing sport scholarship ERUDITION
County council’s final advantage, supplying ballast KENTLEDGE
Country-lover’s predicament at first, caught up in civil unrest PATRIOT
Cheerful, puts down in part of Scotland HIGHLANDS
Producer of fruit: pulpy drink mostly contains it CITRUS
Sparkle, giving low-down about border GLISTEN
Bad taste he exhibited initially? Surely not! AESTHETE
Emotional disturbance produced by second white wine SHOCK
Proper elm? Yes, surprisingly SEEMLY
Rascal cutting top off sturdy walking shoe ROGUE
Put one’s foot in it — small gardening tool? SHOE
Change beer? About time! Right ALTER
Leading journalist going over regimental HQ DEPOT
Knight leaves wading bird to get a drink BITTER
Party, extremely grandiose, for Venice magistrate DOGE
Competitor making no changes to accommodate temperature and energy CONTESTANT
Flaw restricting ring, Irishman set up telephone facility VOICEMAIL
Initially having appeared, lax, vague even, share equally HALVE
Describing distinctive cultural group of 100 — cite changes allowing 50 in CELTIC
Devise new version of control outlet REINVENT
“Guy in charge is entertaining island pair” I see what you’re saying lip-reader
Supply a horse for riding AMOUNT
Referring to country version of rugby — endless criticism follows RUSTIC
One flies aircraft primarily by way of rocky peak AVIATOR
Solitary individual in outskirts of Leicester LONER
Testimony of French accepted by English fellow EVIDENCE
Unoccupied daughter replacing son in Skye, perhaps IDLE