The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
What takes its toll of fish dangling from reel? TURNPIKE
Genuine-sounding part of film REEL
Boast, stuffing rupees into sack BRAG
Ruin — it lies west of here DASH
Clubs undergoing trial for competition CONTEST
Person of colour accepting English ideal of moderation GOLDEN MEAN
Ragamuffin church invited inside URCHIN
One harvesting fish circling at a particular point GATHERER
Shut up Zulu bands performing around king IMPRISON
Frustrated Christian’s superior and unruly fellow BLIGHTED
Gave money to area beset by rising depression PAID
Need email translated for girl MADELEINE
Daughter perhaps is telling stories RELATION
Kept going and took action about blemish SUSTAINED
Instructions to leave a high-rise building derelict down-and-out
Droop as long story appears endless SAG
So call in to cook leek SCALLION
Ray perhaps is small and perversely heavy SUNLIGHT
Burden — and where it might fall ONUS
A source of water includes sulphur too AS WELL
Make known I am a constituent IMPART
Wife putting on fleecy layer WADDING
LOAN FOR BOAT SUB
Meeting takes shape around university FORUM
Alone around home, ending in black and hard depression SINKHOLE
A little son being important SMATTERING
Fruity dessert: trifle? FOOL
Note tons absorbed in needlework CROTCHET
Disdainful second refusal over British blunder SNOBBISH
A figure fancier and strangely tailored IDOLATER
Vessel’s company reported over girl, we hear? CRUCIBLE
See cricket perhaps missing runs SPOT
Cancel journey after a number of deliveries OVERRIDE
One’s turn to bowl delayed? OVERDUE
A number appreciate information technology DIGIT
Temporary housing not yet marvellous? PREFAB
One very prejudiced book I obtained BIGOT
A listening device inside faction’s missile launcher CATAPULT
Boxer who sat up after a clobbering SOUTHPAW
Tsar following dictator killing off a popular composer SULLIVAN