The Times Cryptic 2022 09 14 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
African country stopping short a line of dancers	CONGA
Badly spoiled one line in solid figure	ELLIPSOID
Crop farm animals initially ignored	OATS
Cut and run? Not quite	LOP
Ditch worker perhaps is cutting	TRENCHANT
In one drop, rain oddly glittering	IRIDESCENT
Longing to tour Middle East country	YEMEN
Not a way for waiter to produce dish of meat	STEW
Area of study grey to me sadly	GEOMETRY
Bring up clip, difficult to understand, showing fish	PILCHARD
Celebrated artist nursing one drink in Madrid?	SANGRIA
Cleaning preparation, fake, poor? Not entirely	SHAMPOO
Yob partial to a fight	OAF
Exclude some bits at centre	OMIT
This system gives compiler no end of artifice	METRIC
Short communication about a junior cleaner	LAUNDERETTE
Healer, East German, initially enrolling on course	OSTEOPATH
In part loser — finding he was tied to land	SERF
Italian dish stir too slapdash	RISOTTO
Sets about leaving OT book in assembly	ECCLESIA
Leave diamonds for one much admired	GOD
Narration, true, about Conservative, just what’s needed	RECITAL
Rowena’s husband in one front garden	IVANHOE
What air traveller needs, having meals provided? I don’t know	boarding pass
Quite unemotional senior detective about to arrest Green and Liberal	ice-cold
Linen putting lines on back of neck	NAPERY
Irregular activity from sex workers on suitable beaches	FITS AND STARTS
Capital love letter read out	ROMEO
Concerning about unfashionable course	ROUTE
Guy caring for horses some jostle roughly	OSTLER
Headgear prohibition after trade union resistance	TURBAN
Recess after physical session exercising, just tops	APSE
Lad’s hood, fine, unexpectedly retro?	old-fashioned

African country stopping short a line of dancers

CONGA

Badly spoiled one line in solid figure

ELLIPSOID

Crop farm animals initially ignored

OATS

Cut and run? Not quite

LOP

Ditch worker perhaps is cutting

TRENCHANT

In one drop, rain oddly glittering

IRIDESCENT