The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Bounds of empire shifting over time? I’m not sure PERIMETER
Solicitor having bite to eat in pub BEGGAR
Twice finished burnt? OVERDONE
Amateur player from incredibly rich nation CORINTHIAN
Get rid of Republican, keeping quiet about it ERASE
Fascinated by Badminton shows INTO
Thus female must enter church on time THENCE
Very quietly tucking into beer and fruit APPLE
Sum of £1000 in cash MONKEY
Found among sarcophagi on ancient island IONA
Behold very large European general LOOSE
Gamble when duke retreats, eliminated ICED
Unhappy to have head dropping commercials ADS
Gamble: cut it fine? DICE
Mischievously stole time, finding excuse for a kiss? MISTLETOE
Bishop, one supporting boxer’s defence ALIBI
Girl training in gym originally getting fit ADAPTING
City hotel, an old one HANOI
Transforming hospital, minor GP reforms MORPHING
Colonel losing millions: not what one expected? BLIP
Profile of Tory leading expedition CONTOUR
Note article by small auction house SOTHEBYS
Insult female cashier DISMISS
Bad-tempered friend of Mole RATTY
Not much left in rubbish mostly LITTLE
Restless natives, most proud! VAINEST
Cockney put on payroll, creating resentment IRE
Check on one foreign character CHI
Doctor adored Liberal woman past her prime? old dear
Fancy Italian offloading a drug DIGITALIN
Word of gratitude repeated for so long ta-ta
Rogue president entertaining a streetwalker? PEDESTRIAN
Corpses rotten fellow declares CADAVERS
Censor right-wing writer blue-pencil
Speaks idly of Nato, terse, never coming to a conclusion NATTERS
I’m returning cake, evenly cut, for boy MICK
Egg-laying creature quietly burrowing into ground TERRAPIN
Remove arresting officer? That’s quite revealing DECOLLETE
Case of criminal instructor having run off CONTAINER
Short coil can, when twisted LACONIC
Harry succeeded in safe surroundings PESTER
Recommend a chap to Sue? ADVOCATE
Choose gal misbehaving, old enough to be taught a lesson? school-age
English teacher suspicious in absence of head’s representative EMISSARY
Avoiding contact when old spies call, finally ASOCIAL
Joint I hesitate to say in street’s for trendies HIPSTERS