The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Cunningly hide a Saint getting out of strip DISSEMBLE
More confident bachelor, more mature BOLDER
Devil of a politician leading awful sheepish lot MEPHISTOPHELES
PM TO RING KABUL WARLORD PERHAPS FORSAKING FORCE CALLAGHAN
Nothing left in well? ALL RIGHT
Toy dog briefly left by lake DOLL
Conflict interrupting river crossing in advance FORWARD
Crazy old king’s losing his head NUTS
Fish set before queen GROUPER
French wetlands with no river to maintain ARGUE
Hard to falsify passport? RIGID
In the wings before minute’s warning? ALARM
In vulnerable situation, ox shifted with speed EXPOSED
Influence of one million crowd IMPRESS
Labour’s forced here to trail behind grand upper class GULAG
Lay academic again cancels start of work PROFANE
Leave university with debt halved — blessed state BEATITUDE
Make madder and nettle perfume INCENSE
Put out without a note as second-hand USED
Running mate made Republican top candidates DREAM TEAM
Scots head key large mountain university in Europe HEIDELBERG
Shame piano’s fallen off platform ODIUM
Short time off to stay at home for painter HOLBEIN
Soldier allowed padded clothing GILET
One new pal is patient INMATE
Raised platform said to need adjustment DAIS
Rousing prison group STIRRING
Silly to repeat a work by Gilbert and Sullivan, maybe OPERETTA
Spent freely, reportedly, being depressed BLUE
Tea taken with candid member of the clergy CHAPLAIN
Make a mistake, ending in mate by bishop ERR
In a hotel shown in large book AT HOME
Illustrations vividly described by son GRAPHICS
Head of some outfit in satirical sketch SKIT
Foremost of hunted fish in list HEEL
Extremely popular digging tools IN SPADES
Exploit of female put away FEAT
Deceive gangster and win a thousand HOODWINK
Daughter wearing five rings, rings for witchcraft VOODOO
Cut off tail of pollack, food fish served up DOCK
Breaking down, colonel prior to oversight COLLAPSE
Bottle-washer's corpse found by hounds DOGSBODY
A surreptitious kiss outside before social activity in an Alpine resort? apres-ski
A duke at this place gets stick ADHERE
KIND OFFER TENDER
WILD CHILD IS KID GETTING A CAKE RAGAMUFFIN
FELL BACKWARDS IN LOUNGE, PERHAPS ROOM
Persistently asks for money — daft in Scots location DUNSINANE
Cutting back, setting cost for policeman? Not right COPPICING
Work hard on record that is broken by learner crossword fanatic? LOGOPHILE
Two refusals before thinking it’s not working NONOPERATIONAL
Police station is turned over STASI
The man holding old gardening implement HOE
Cooking, unless entertaining a voluptuary SENSUAL
Good making up numbers for basic training GROUNDING
Block of limestone pavement, stone, cold for feet, initially CLINT