The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Wave after couple’s decisive match TIEBREAKER
Fine new missile NARROW
From now on fetch heron for cooking HENCEFORTH
Unsettle girl’s jazz group, initially being unusually behind time DISCOMBOBULATE
Restore Magritte perhaps beginning to wear RENEW
House for men only, originally earmarked for captive HOSTAGE
Sparkle of Greek character initially accepted among Zulus PIZZAZZ
Profundity of department head’s introduction DEPTH
Caught a whiff of fish SMELT
Forcibly enter Irish port after game IRRUPT
Islamist Queen of more cheerful disposition SUNNIER
Crossing eastern river, passed big snake SERPENT
Where Gray famously wrote, a place for grave contemplation CHURCHYARD
Learning rising political policy maker on left has advantage KNOWLEDGE
Son plugging heroic work by foreign-sounding churchgoer EPISCOPALIAN
Maazel’s stardom regularly revealed a great conductor MAESTRO
Faulty shot having impact at first in film MISHIT
Let’s rob abandoned pad BOLSTER
Ancient religion Amritsar and Zion so reformed ZOROASTRIANISM
Make an impression, and so on, on husband ETCH
Noted skill of chap on vessel inspiring American firm once MUSICIANSHIP
Cruel tyrant kills editor on return DESPOT
What’s towards end of shoe? TOE
Where yachtsmen off Cowes are disrespectful and rude INSOLENT
Intensity of feeling is hard to take in HEAT
Established writer comes in to land, do we hear? ORTHODOX
Horse in oceangoing vessel fed unsuitable food LIPIZZANER
Illegal tunnel regularly very poor UNLAWFUL
Wide boy seeking profit in villainy, primarily SPIV
Decorated old Royal Navy mate losing millions ORNATE
Pity Boaz’s wife RUTH
Relaxation from brainteasers EASE
Waving brevet, charge, having backbone! VERTEBRATE
Purely oral nutrient, strangely including whiskey UNWRITTEN
Happy lass finally touring in Africa and Asia, say CONTINENTS
Transverse beam constructed by peevish man on board CROSSPIECE
Old Russian ruler’s vehicle carrying Zambia’s leader CZAR
On radio, outlets for publicising cutting tool ADZE
Like a piano given by singers including heartless tenor STRUNG
English divine visiting new site of key Welsh festival EISTEDDFOD