The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 04 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
WAS SUMMING UP ABRIDGED OLD POETRY COLLECTION EDDA
PARTY HOSTS ENDING ON FLOOR, ONE OVER THE EIGHT PERHAPS? FRACTION
REDUCED CHARGE FOR SALAD INGREDIENT COS
OFFICIAL TAKEN IN BY CENTRE FORWARD, IN SHORT REFEREE
Impression made by one politician introducing bill IMPACT
BRIGHT BLUE RINGS STOLEN ULTIMATELY, SUCKER! QUICKSAND
LIQUID FOOD CAUGHT ON? JUST A TOUCH SOUPCON
SPECIOUS EXCUSE FROM PLATOON LEADER REGARDING MESSAGE PRETEXT
LEASEHOLDERS FINALLY CIRCUMVENT ANY RENT MIX-UP TENANTRY
FLOURISH CONTAINER FOR GRAIN HUSKS? BRANDISH
HEARTS DIRECTLY AFFECTED WITH CORE OF FLOWER POWER HYDROELECTRIC
One collecting things up, philanderer beginning to repent RAKER
Communications satellite rattles frightfully TELSTAR
Ready for the press, businessman's banking foundation SUBEDIT
Slam meat in oven ROAST
Song in simple Venetian tune BARCAROLE
Still spoiler on rear of vehicle painted with coloured substance red-eye
Stomach provided here? MIDRIFF
Turn tail as troubled student of life NATURALIST
Undecided where rocket should go UP IN THE AIR
Where set of keys may be found by relative opening grave BABY GRAND
Reader mightn’t stand this heat in the kitchen, perhaps? POTBOILER
Rascally plot — assign book to top shelf? PUT-UP JOB
Oscar, trophy unusually bagged by more sinister wit DOROTHY PARKER
Boring thing, a pistol taking head off AUGER
Cockney’s thus entertaining ladies, maybe, in Kaliningrad, say ENCLAVE
Daisy exhausted, riding bicycle initially in wrong gear GERBERA
Fielder's skill easily picked up CATCHING
First time out, useless opener dismissed — a liability? DEBT
Half of flipping idle workers getting stick DISTAFF
Inattentive member briefly getting in touch CARELESS
Last of water filling pinkish kettle CORRAL
Lovely thing, solver? CRACKER
Muppet, classic character ends in film clip: Kermit say? NUMPTY
Odds cut on fairy, I feel, spirit creating storm? ARIEL
On-set film panel marking celebrity PLAQUE
Polish hero the limit for Caesar? RUBICON
A row involving Irish transport organisation AIRLINE
An old work about an Indian city POONA
Class going round rear of medieval fortress CASTLE
Extremely coarse, genuine breakfast food? CEREAL
Give the game away? A clumsy greengrocer might SPILL THE BEANS
House in Home Counties beside busy road SEMI
In maturity, engineers see eye to eye AGREE
Large jug sheep found by river EWER
Loss of girl’s looks and bearing DISAPPEARANCE
Particular sci-fi film seized by Irish legislators DETAIL
Personification of sun initially shining over Llandudno SOL
Rainstorm in Ulster county, on the rocks some say? DOWNPOUR
Self-satisfied, having rejected sweets SMUG
Shrewd girl in outskirts of Coventry CANNY
Start of exciting film, a blockbuster EPIC
Trick woman into breaking up a group of stars CONSTELLATION
Vocally expresses disapproval of alcoholic drink BOOZE
Way fashionable eighteenth century elegist identifies fish STINGRAY