The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
European married in Kent? SWEDE
Small balls in position one doesn't want to lose BEARINGS
One begged for a repeat PARDON
Crazy girl I dumped MAD
Spirit a little melancholy ELAN
Daughter, robust but stupefied DRUGGED
Religious proviso one gets in a church offering words of wisdom? ADVICE
Aunt cooked fish TUNA
River for you to sit beside somewhere in Sussex RYE
US soldier back visiting a second friend from abroad AMIGO
Feeble golf becomes an obsession THING
This writer's needing to demonstrate progress IMPROVE
A long time later, when we’re closed? AFTER HOURS
One marsh turning into desert GOBI
Bit of wood left at back of farm in risky operation BRANCHLET
A measure of force to implant monitor in rodent VOLTAGE
Bird, one sadly missing out — it can't fly! PIG
Opposed directly, one had adapted head-on
Gentleman sent back fish dish (it's ''crumby'') RISSOLE
About to dive into water? Hold it! BREATH
Like message passed on to be perused, having got tidied up? READDRESSED
Second-rate monarch is moving BETAKING
As hooter is heard, votes against NOES
Poirot’s cases were never so like a baffling crossword? UNSOLVED
In quarrel notice piercing tool BRADAWL
Giant oil spills making a sort of design INTAGLIO
Enduring holding vote outside EXTERNAL
At centre of village, social event for politicians GREEN PARTY
Shepherd’s first try to remove a fleece SHEAR
Dreadful fare cooked, not all FEARSOME
Brats go up to vandalise superior hostelry GASTROPUB
Tom maybe has a fit of temper — explosive meltdown? CATASTROPHE