The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
BLOKE DIGESTING BOOKS OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT NATURE? EROTIC
Thrashing learner restricted by deficiency FLAILING
Foreign banker puts a lot of money on old computer POTOMAC
This time holding run, coming back exhausted WORN
Old-fashioned bloke in sheltered inlet COVE
Moving quietly, preparing cell for raver? PADDING
Long journey that may encounter a hitch? HIKE
One may produce milk, haphazardly as I infer FRIESIAN
SMALL NUMBER WITH SATISFACTORY HIDEAWAY NOOK
SUPPLY DAUGHTER WITH ENTERTAINMENT FUND
Coming to an end of atonement, assuming the lead in reparations EXPIRATION
Mass of rock coming from left? TOR
Music to make nanny’s companion seriously disturbed? ROCKABILLY
No science subjects mean breaking into so much laughter FINE ARTS
Pierce page with what one is writing with? PINK
Religious drama; suggesting calmer one? MIRACLE PLAY
Round Australia drink and fruit lifted author EMILE ZOLA
Sorcery may concern criminal NECROMANCY
Speak badly of wound one can’t directly see? BACKBITE
Swill round, swallowing only in extremis? That’s grotesque GARGOYLE
Make incomprehensible poem after being regularly crazy in the head ENCODE
Love to interrupt endlessly stroppy dancers BOLSHOI
Liable for flat PRONE
How you choose a fabric .. AT WILL
Heard song before in poem ERE
Gangster invites in composer briefly for a drink CAPPUCCINO
Flask makes a come-back RETORT
Suck up spicy taste, not liked initially CURRY FAVOUR
Seabird using the front regularly TERN
Spend a very long time finding way through building? PASSAGE
Stars constantly yattering about Brazilian port ORION
Strange lot, if in thin wrapping TINFOIL
Unavailing, nursing sick criminal VILLAIN
Underground worker arresting a Republican sailor MARINER
Unproductive peer, by the sound of it BARREN
Weatherproof coat a nosy person talked of? PARKA
Woman beginning to enjoy article going north ENA
To assemble is a fag ROLL UP
Two features of cricket take too long OVERRUN
X, cold greeting CHI
With frequency an old don drifts into sleep LAND OF NOD
Extremely foul tramp’s lost outside ULTRA
Box tree, in part TRUNK
Big beast thus disposed of? BISON
... no bias, please write with care OPEN MIND
SUPPORTING MEMBER MAKING US SMILE BROADLY BEAM
Capital fellow, the Italian ace! MANILA
Bachelor, fairly flabby, like a cartoon colonel? BLIMPISH
Angry mule, for example CROSS
A team only Mancunians originally saw? AXIOM
Consumed a bit of pie at Enfield EATEN
Employees tire first, running banner up this? FLAGSTAFF
Fashionable northern lodging-place INN
Futile, abandoning ship in Merseyside port BOOTLE
Male newlywed, an islander HEBRIDEAN
One who kills a couple of donkeys at home? ASSASSIN
Permission to make tracks? LEAVE