The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
ANGUISHED EXPRESSION FROM SERIOUS EXPERT GRIMACE
LOCAL SITE FOR MISSILE LAUNCH? OCHE
SNAKE? STORMY PETREL EATS ONE! REPTILE
STILL ONE SEES LEGENDARY HIGHLANDER YETI
MUSICAL DRAMA? SONG AND DANCE
SEE! THAT CATCHES ANIMAL! LASSO
SENIOR WOMAN ROUGH ON NEEDY DOYENNE
COOL FOOD GENERATING SOME PUBLICITY? FANFARE
Given good things? Not so much in the plant area BLESSED
AFFECTED MATERIAL FINALLY DELETED TWEE
Notice nothing causing fuss ADO
Trained dog to keep at home — not this one! DINGO
FOOL EXPECTED TO SEIZE POWER DUPE
COLOSSAL SCOTSMAN IN SPORTS CAR GIANT
NEWS HAS SPREAD ABOUT ZORRO'S SKILL SWORDPLAY
STOP WORK ON PRISON CAN
SPORTING CONTEST IN PROGRESS, INVOLVING PHYSICAL EXERCISE OPEN
MOSTLY DECISIVE ABOUT ISLAND EMERGENCY CRISIS
MOST OF VAGUE SERMON ULTIMATELY NOT SUITABLE FOR CEREMONY UNCLEAN
PIVOTAL POINT THOROUGHLY REDUCED? A LITTLE REDUCED FULCRUM
FEEL SOURCE OF MONEY IN THIS PLACE IS KEEPING SON IN WORK ATMOSPHERE
REPRESENTED AS AN EDIBLE LINE IN CONFECTIONERY ANISEED BALL
ACTIVITY LEADING TO FUNERAL: SENSE UPSET IN THE HEART CORTEGE
REST ON QUALITY ITEM ON BEACH BREAKWATER
Backed some police operations involving men with guns now and then SPORADIC
British city Metro, not entirely something you’d expect to fill with water BATHTUB
Carry sixteen letters uphill TOTE
Chap coming back without a tree ELM
European problem in speech reflected on Greek character EPSILON
His luck failed with English and similar subjects SUCHLIKE
Journalists going after fraudulent money-making in sports equipment racket press
One conjectures eggs will turn up in this nest ultimately THEORIST
Mysterious quantity of film probing most of region ARCANE
One targeted by Cupid’s weapon, we hear BEAU
Other great plays gripping one, ultimately? theatre-goer
Rubbish story not involving a rabbit TATTLE
Satisfy school about European Union contribution to French newspaper FEUILLETON
Sound in a particular field? Not entirely unresolved MOO
Story provided by the Schubertian songs LIEDER
Sun now, perhaps — then rain? MONSOON
Symbolic child — I’m in church, making a return TOTEMIC
There’s a wavering around most of back lighting effect on the moon EARTHSHINE
Time for one area to be recalled AGE
Ultimately false number in singer’s equivalent figure ALTER EGO
Version of a simple and cute set of messages for the future TIME CAPSULE
Ace puzzle offers surprise AMAZE
Brownish colour very good in ocean SEPIA
Distant meteor to break up REMOTE
Hector on tower guarding this city TORONTO
Hunter about to cross Spanish river ORION
Kinky setter in nude — not curious? UNINTERESTED
Lucky escape, then a grin perhaps NEAR THING
Mature answer good by news boss AGED
Popular action? Certainly! INDEED
Practical husband with boy hands-on
Round dispenser? GUN
Shoe in box for delivery OXFORD
Time Magazine, maybe, a disposable paper TISSUE