The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 05 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
THIS WRITER'S PURSUING VERY OLD MAN'S CASE VOCATIVE
A PIECE OF ORAL EVIDENCE TURNS UP DESCRIBING PART OF MOUTH VELAR
Stable worker in extremely grazeable clearing in forest GLADE
CARDINAL SLOW ON WAY BACK, EVERYBODY DISHEARTENED WOLSEY
YIELD FROM A MINE DRILLING COPPER OVERDUE CAPITULATE
OUR GROUP BY IRISH RIVER FEATURE WEIR
Style of rock music that could get you back on road? GARAGE
A recluse hosts male welfare worker once ALMONER
BAR CULTURE SOMEHOW RELATED TO CONSUMPTION TUBERCULAR
Audibly demonstrates contempt for sauce BOOZE
Flier’s usual nonsense? PARROT
Arrange scores or bust judge ORCHESTRATE
Author's lyrical work lacking effort POE
Committee adviser bridles at pundit COMMENTATOR
Does salt always stick to this big dish? MAIN COURSE
Fatuous one follows papers to do with hearing IDIOTIC
Firm in the past briefly occupying island CONCRETE
Food item with rocket on top VIAND
Former Bond loaded with what's needed for passion EXCITEMENT
Garrulous, like a TV lunatic absorbing atmosphere TALKATIVE
I must display energy in different ways EGO
In Yorkshire, the tavern that provides lifts? T-bar
Alcohol initially banned in skating area RINK
Atmosphere Old Boy found in Northern Ireland’s capital city NAIROBI
Chess player’s success welcomed by bridge partners WHITE
Encirclement, say, if enemy gets energetic at outset SIEGE
Erotic dancing outside church — rebound hard to predict? RICOCHET
Last pair abandoning fashionable, ill-fated mission ALAMO
Marine line's pump PLIMSOLL
Missing leader, draws lots OODLES
Put off foreign one wearing old hat DAUNTED
Ray comes across right word to help concentration MANTRA
Ring head about one dope OPIATE
Runner goes around a Munro SAKI
Privateer recalling Capri as rocky in part CORSAIR
Second pin number maybe in A&E AIDE
Single-digit growth worried one in the end TOENAIL
Sort of square rings on top of that TOO
To surpass in work, I trust mobile OUTSTRIP
Twice loses unemployment benefit? Just that! DOLE
Where to put post and support shrub PILLAR BOX
Woman possessed a nut found among bananas MAENAD
Film “Titanic” — argued new version is needed EDUCATING RITA
Foxtrot and tango as alternatives in soldiers’ place? FORT
In from France, happy to embrace new country ENGLAND
Irritable as vessel held in New York NARKY
Like sheep or like cow (not British) OVINE
Loudly announce point in cellar CRYPT
One in boat dispute? I’m not sure ROWER
Orchestral musician, popular, into red wine CLARINET
Originally Vicky learned about perfume LAVENDER
Peer over lavatory, close, to see senior minister LORD PRIVY SEAL
Present lady, without publicity, in kind manner TENDERLY
River in the news oddly TEES
Scoundrel in vogue given new start ROGUE
Slogan from shaman tradition MANTRA
Unrealistic upper-class head boy UTOPIAN