The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 08 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Ramshackle Welsh store closing early, offering zero value WORTHLESS
Partner is criminal type CONSORT
Killer insect wife brushed off ASP
Ignorant, like many soldiers about end of operation UNINFORMED
Joint work brought back large animal HIPPO
Viticulture’s rumour mill? GRAPEVINE
For leader shortly cooked sponge FREELOAD
Sound of activity in university Her Majesty is going round HUM
In refurbished inn, a relaxed six-footer ALEXANDRINE
Spare time not disguised OVERT
Insect having an insect’s tail ANT
River runs away from country houses GANGES
Journalist, heading away from hut HACK
Scandinavian taking in opening of contemporary ballet? DANCE
60 minutes showing no opening for us OUR
Army head acquires a second scar CICATRICE
Laughed and shook her hips? Good for wife! GIGGLED
Bird’s claw regularly in its beak? MACAW
Expression of revulsion in one heavily criticising carnage SLAUGHTER
Inflexible barrier installed by a worker ADAMANT
Spooky horse seen around hackney carriage? MACABRE
Prompt English journalist to probe possible traitor SPEEDY
Unsteady, twisted across wide street WAVERY
Picked up suitable one to wear fancy raincoat for approval RATIFICATION
Nanny’s tender love, coming in to collect daughter GOATHERD
Quiet appreciation of music bears fruit PEAR
Clear evidence of leg injury I had LIMPID
As well it’s where a countdown is heading TOO
Brought round again, gunners tired, needing energy to rise REAWAKENED
Crashed bus brought in by worker’s partner HUSBAND
Dreadful, and almost entirely accepted by Liverpudlian, mostly SCANDALOUS
Place bedecked in unalloyed imperial colour PURPLE
One small particle? In favour of 100 PROTON
Frequently become milder after losing head OFTEN
VANITY CASES? EGOS
Border crime dismissive of borders RIM
Extra protection on helmet gets one almost cooked GRILLE
Area covered by second best doctor on a temporary basis STOPGAP
Relative area reduced by half? Not sure UNCLEAR
River gets clogged up in sound STYX
I’m blocking a friend’s ill-feeling ACRIMONY
Building in garden where a serving of wine is free? GLASSHOUSE