The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
THOSE WHO INVESTIGATE REPORT OF TAVERN GHOSTS? INSPECTORS
Hang on here: this is part of a circus act TRAPEZE
QUICKLY, SINGER GRABS LARGE WADER ALLEGRETTO
BRANCH TO YIELD TO AUDITORS BOUGH
IN NASA LAB, A MAD STATE ALABAMA
FINE-TUNE VARIABLE WAY OF WORKING ON HOLIDAY HONEYMOON
SAMPLED BOTTLES WITHOUT MEANS, AT FIRST, SUCH AS SCHOONERS? two-masted
MARRY SUPPORTER OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION? UNITE
GRASP A FIGHTING EUROPEAN BY THE HEAD AWARENESS
AFTER BATTLE, NAPOLEON EVACUATED A PART OF AUSTRIA VIENNA
PRIME JOURNAL, NOT THE FIRST TREATISE ON ANIMALS BESTIARY
QUALITY OF FINE CHAMPERS, MAYBE, OR PILSENER, AS DRUNK PEARLINESS
PORT CONTRIBUTING TO HIGH-RISK OBESITY KOBE
BATTLE HAD AROUND AMERICAN, 50, IN POSH HOTEL AUSTERLITZ
BLOOMER I COMMITTED ORIGINALLY IN CITY OF STAR-CROSSED LOVERS VERONICA
SCAVENGER HAS BRIEFLY TO CONTAIN HUNGER HYENA
LOVER ONCE WHOLLY TRANSFIXED BY ISLAND OF GREAT BEAUTY EXQUISITE
NO PLACE FOR SCOTT OR JANIS TO WED JOIN
CELEBRATED DAY SCHOOL BEING OVER NOTED
LIKE THE DUTCH, PRUDENTLY CHANGING SHILLINGS TO FRANCS WIFELY
SIX HUGE GUARDS LEFT KEEPING WATCH VIGILANT
Survivor of The Archers broadcast absent as ISIHAC’s beginning SEBASTIAN
Sudden vivid memory of, say, Gordon Champion FLASHBACK
Row concerning whose turn it is to catch up TIER
Request one’s placed between wife and husband WISH
People’s food likes oddly exposed FOLKS
Maybe egoists changing gradually AS TIME GOES BY
Not an intelligent sort of angle? OBTUSE
On the front, extremely large, mature tree ELM
Piece of information union contributed to barrier DATUM
Principal gateway perhaps ARCH
Sudden noise? Exactly BANG
To ravage always wrong, note LAY WASTE
Tough joint of meat for refuge, by the way HARD SHOULDER
Wide outbreak of pied mice disrupted EPIDEMIC
WW2 leader’s some competitor! TITO
June’s last tango: it hit her badly THIRTIETH
Initially has sort of connection with railway’s sound management HUSBANDRY
I’m sharp, but would I ever make a fast bowler? HATPIN
Excellent advice to papa TIPTOP
Did spring article in Paris: fitting! LEAPT
Current age of US lawman given in play TODAY
Corruption of niece’s MP, for example SPECIMEN
Card player’s score put out? PIQUE
CRUEL AND SENSELESS TO INHIBIT WHAT BEES DO INHUMANE
For audience, bring in vessel URN
Current man on board DRAUGHT
Caught by tree branch, making this? CLIMB
Bung in favourable publicity PLUG
Assessments of sailors? RATINGS
About to tuck into reddish-brown biscuit MACAROON
A curtain said to be useful AVAIL
Goons hail different ruffians HOOLIGANS
Hanging around, putting in zero housework HOOVERING
Incantation provides chap with raised skill MANTRA
Island’s importance, short of energy WIGHT