The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Duck coming across large person wielding spadelike tool SHOVELLER
Hoteliers lost stray cat perhaps TORTOISESHELL
Took part in parade, urged to protect commander PROCESSED
Expression of disapproval over universal ballet wear TUTU
Grip cold electrical appliance CLAMP
Valediction from a girl at Brussels ADIEU
Grain, bivalve mollusc, and roadside plant CORNCOCKLE
Change loose dress SHIFT
Fish markets principally in Scottish island, and German one BARRAMUNDI
First signs of horsefly's unwelcome, exasperating appearance HUE
Rotten team not in position to score OFFSIDE
Fearing losing head studying READING
Reportedly vote against animal noise NEIGH
Sounds made by seagulls in stable yard MEWS
Wood regularly found in vellum ELM
In favour of job suggestion PROPOSITION
Where fish may be kept, as in part of opera AQUARIA
Oddly hear poet producing musical HAMILTON
US composer defending old times in country dwelling COTTAGE
Unexpected role Garland’s taken on — a siren LORELEI
Former railway employee is one sending goods out EXPORTER
Land due to turbulence? That’s knotty NODULATED
Say a cult transformed injured party CASUALTY
Where two gentlemen were putting up an old cleric VERONA
Nimble US soldier drowning in beer AGILE
Captain beginning to skin smoked fish SKIPPER
Part of foot in church INCH
Water down cement mix used by inspector DILUTE
Happen to live well at last, having crossed Cornish river BEFALL
Trust from worker perhaps covering cover up BELIEVE
Check uranium in mine entrance AUDIT
Seasoning on one sausage PEPPERONI
Passenger bill includes rodent GERBIL
He painted a dancer and extremely old violin, originally leonardo da vinci
Cornered brick carrier holding returned chicken product HOGGED
Source of heating abandoned by British tanker OILER
Copy first of adult games APE
Deliver post, including notes identifying roof timber RIDGEPOLE
Perfect force having no rules FLAWLESS
Practise too hard in cricket period, having a number of coaches OVERTRAIN
Young male wolf, perhaps, meeting a Trojan queen HECUBA
Concentrated way we count decimally: it’s very easy at first INTENSIVE
Some fancy a nice greenish-blue colour CYAN