The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 07 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Crazy reason for building a railway engine LOCOMOTIVE
Pledge to collect one, finding lift quickly HOICK
Horror story German playwright hasn't begun CHILLER
Promote smoked ham, perhaps, or game BACKGAMMON
In church, vice out of bounds CHIC
Make a speech, initially outlining charge ORATE
I stop after short time — somewhere to get a little drink? MINIBAR
An American woman overseas ABROAD
Army entertainer HOST
Cleanliness elevated boy or girl, reportedly? HYGIENE
Big fish aunt cooked TUNA
Skirt-like garment Liberal leader included in gear KILT
Thrash young farm animal endlessly LAM
Old Conservative carves up wall-coating STUCCO
Bread cut after vehicle leaves CABBAGE
Learned man rested outside commercial vehicle SAVANT
Human organ left in cup of tea? EARTHLING
Auction in Greater Manchester town SALE
Meeting client, senorita excited intersectional
Marge spread round top of muffin, a very small amount GRAMME
Titanic battle, shower wiped from terrain MONSTER
Wife invested in African currency, an African RWANDAN
Composer stripped for Native American tribe HOPI
Location accommodating a royal residence PALACE
Sound of sucker in drain LEACH
Drink containing old grape PINOT
Potential killer, European breaking measure of work up GRENADE
Heavenly bodies a hormone finally produces ASTEROIDS
Effusion a girl talked of before race EMANATION
Valet in minister’s residence initially vilified in tirade MANSERVANT
Back in bureau, a seriously hairy man ESAU
Unvarying way worker supports scam CONSTANT
Study Latin at first and make money LEARN
Behaved disgustingly in minor quarrel SPAT
Traffic problem a blind mouse would have welcomed? TAILBACK