The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 03 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Police trainee detective on vacation given whip round CADET
From Scandinavia once Spanish chap, cycling NORSE
Competitor very invested in Middle East cash RIVAL
Courage is never wasted NERVE
Smart former President shunning Republican area CHIC
Making sound spoils instrument LUTE
So frog went and died CROAKED
Upsetting but rewarding service TIPPING
Uncomfortable position pinched bottom HOT SEAT
Rod, home doctor, left Daisy dressing sticking plaster
Beach artist is a woman SANDRA
King's guard exploit last of free ale bottles BEEFEATER
Large cat formerly seen round university OUNCE
Work hard to contain university room disarray TURMOIL
The meaning of a pile of snow DRIFT
Suggestion concerning charity formerly bestowed on new church REDOLENCE
County girl finished first DONEGAL
Struggle to get girl back in city VIENNA
Control power of monarch in speech REIN
Lowest odds about United being toast? BOTTOMS UP
Nervous as an expectant queen? having kittens
Chap handin’ out instrument MANDOLIN
Run aground acting as sentry on guard
Golf club supporters smile occasionally BRASSIE
Puts to rest every agreement? ALLAYS
Underground column’s wasted time at POW camp STALAGMITE
Potentially, online agent’s spot ESPY
Makeshift plug hole? STOPGAP
Write down music: number above gallery NOTATE
Infant sat on large racket BABEL
Senior restaurant employee leaving India in spring, perhaps HEADWATER
Italian barman maybe burned, skin peeling off VERDI
Childish affliction initially resolved in major success CROUP
Waving 'ta-ra now!' outside Greek temple angkor wat
Film star’s good about bloody kiss Gregory Peck
Press contributing to environment IRON
Briefly, country squire in poverty INDIGENT
One party line becomes a fetish IDOL
Furtive air at reorganised administrative department SECRETARIAT
An ultra revolutionary is unaffected NATURAL
Personnel I introduced to television editor flourished THRIVED
British papers covering Powell perhaps, heartless exercise BENCH PRESS