The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
AN ENDLESS BORING TASK TO BE A TV PRESENTER ANCHOR
MAKE AN ACCUSATION, USING DIGITAL MEANS? point the finger
Draw out a French novel and a couple of articles UNSHEATHE
Wondering bridge player in an undistinguished crowd AWESTRUCK
CACTUS ONLY AN ENEMY WILL IDENTIFY? NOPAL
CLAIM TO BE MONARCH IN CHARGE OF A LARGE LANDMASS? AMERICA
PLEA TO ADD TWO POINTS TO FORMAL AGREEMENT ENTREATY
TOP-QUALITY BALL GAME BY SAILOR five-star
DEPEND ENTIRELY? ONLY HALF RELY
SUPPORTER HOLDING SEAT IS NO MINISTER BACKBENCHER
ILLEGALLY DUMP END OF TINY ANTENNA? fly-tip
SEE BULLY WOUNDED: GOOD SHOT! BULLS EYE
UNAPPROACHABLE, LIKE A RUGBY HALF-BACK? STANDOFFISH
STAGE PERFORMER UNFORTUNATELY QUITS IN REVOLT VENTRILOQUIST
COST OF ATTENDING CHURCH WEDDING? IT SHOULD GO TO THE STAFF SERVICE CHARGE
FINE DEED, IN TRUTH FACT
A LINE DANCE? CONGA
Sound fellow in education primarily, one arranging courses? BRICKIE
Sound made by old Egyptian ruler’s game FARO
Spineless fellow rejected by girl extremely bluntly namby-pamby
Suggestion upset rugby player, a supporter of mine pit-prop
Support goal, heading off Arab, perhaps ENDORSE
Scare female away? Correct RIGHTEN
Hollow space? Not out visiting South America SINUS
Flower, one planted by lake in Northumberland? NILE
Express sorrow audibly, though backing Arthur C Clarke’s work? sci-fi
By which we measure enclosed ground, attracting flak? YARDSTICK
Composition in Monet’s art, for example ESSAY
Cut off current, well behind time ISOLATE
English politician beginning to organise broadcast about stores EMPORIA
Tie up new horse? Risky around this northern area yorkshire moors
Wanderer Pythias’s friend recalled NOMAD
Way sailors misguidedly sit for someone like Picasso? MODERNIST
£51 meal, one omitting the food? LIQUID LUNCH
A multitude in store, it’s said HORDE
A tendency to keep son away ABSENT
Broadcaster busy emitting dangerous material RADIOACTIVE
Detached area? I’ll say! ISLE
Food deposited in meat-safe EATS
Pitiful, heartless, corrupt? Here’s a boost UPLIFT
Press lay about, spread so thinly? SPARSELY
Record one article: time for a descriptive word EPITHET
Spiteful type hosting scanty entertainment CABARET
Scatty padre loses cat LEOPARDESS
Poor chap captured by Napoleonic marshal NEEDY
Irritation displayed in functions held by workers antsiness
Plant originally cultivated in flatter surroundings? BUTTERCUP
Panic relating to wings at front of mansion ALARM
One of many popes digesting Holy Writ slowly LENTO
Old lockers accommodating half of dope very well okey-dokey
Notice in Daily Express initially a mockery? CHARADE
Junior officer’s payment to change name SUBALTERN