The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 09 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Awfully scared when drinking one cocktail SIDECAR
Possess new shelter HAVEN
Uncontrolled desire to have a place? RESIDE
Mischievous wife rubbished his claim WHIMSICAL
Introduction to Alceste not short in accompaniment ALONG
Writer meeting tragic woman, a female of many words? POETESS
Prevent bread going bad DEBAR
Fuel running short as tugs perhaps crossing N Asian landmark PETRONAS TOWERS
Disrespectful type has come out grabbing king and queen MOCKER
Cereal crop parts burning in distance we hear? EARSHOT
Poll tax protester rival to Thatcher mentioned? TYLER
Looking embarrassed about daughter RED
Traveller from Venice has bow in hair — old look MARCO POLO
Blatant imposture girl and boy must defend UNASHAMED
Most good-looking worker, some very holy person too HANDSOMEST
Milk served over arsenic in snacks before meal TAPAS
Attempting to get fish after ordinary food TACKLING
Most pleasant characters among Venice's tourists NICEST
U-turning Socialist is no Conservative? Discuss CONSIDER
Best work men? OPTIMAL
Err so badly, making you more upset SORER
Event in which police backed soldiers spontaneously EXTEMPORE
Sales do badly — stock so restricted? LASSOED
Taken in by absorbing Resistance story HARD TIMES
Leader briefly turns up, making you cry SOB
Conservative departing America's heart to submit ENTER
Good Parisian about to become someone important NOB
Cutting fish, worker grasps flounder's tail TRENCHANT
Reptiles, concealed in topiary, go outside no longer OPHIDIA
Tory holding Liberal ultimately responsible for hacked phone CLONE
Very little language in a short Bible extract? VERSE
Emperor had managed to cross India HADRIAN
Some hamburgers about to be served as common food GRUB
Fruit come to ground creates public interest LIMELIGHT
Short skirt put into carrier: one from our line? HOMINID
Defence ministry traitors elevated in 28? STARDOM
Final action in school period — ten punished INTERMENT
Sat awkwardly in a wine store, choose not to partake? ABSTAIN
Face pain, showing self-assurance PANACHE
English about to tuck into lean boneless meat ESCALOPE