The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
PRETEND TO BE EXCITED, WASTING TIME SIMULATED
Run across traveller ROVER
ABILITY TO REASON AT THE HEART OF MI6? INTELLIGENCE
Firmly fix hedge, trimming the top RIVET
Dripping, a kind of fat SATURATED
APPEAR TO NOTICE FAVOURITISM, FINALLY SEEM
Move round bed to corner a rat TURNCOAT
One’s under canvas to relax at length EASEL
Room’s window having no frame ATTIC
Top driver’s support to corporation TEETOTUM
Vehicles going head to head at game BACCARAT
Manager retains old craftsman COOPER
Find a description of each other planet? UNEARTH
Inducement to serve in unhappy ship BOUNTY
Hotel where there may be pie? But without fat SKINNY
Helpful-sounding woman ADA
Fix function for parent that’s boringly complicated RIGMAROLE
Finish off better stand-up routine IMPROV
Extent of responsibility left one fool struggling PORTFOLIO
Box female soldiers, with police car outside PANDORA
Drippy work of war artist? action painting
Do wrong, offering paste, pocketing diamonds MISDO
Computer obsessive’s good to go — that’s scary! EEK
Can woman be producing children? ISSUE
Call up to have a trial for City BUDAPEST
BUDDY MAYBE SHARING A LIFT IN A SORT OF TUNNEL? CARPAL
Article on drinking den for barristers? THE BAR
Stern bachelor meeting cook on vacation BACK
Tutor upset about abuse TORTURE
Untidy room from which Oink might emerge? PIGSTY
Working at the double, circle in all directions unaided ON ONES OWN
Wine collection merchant picked up CELLAR
Charlie, leaping initially into bed CLOT
Cheek of son visiting famous regiment SASS
Choke, spitting out large rum STRANGE
Composer’s name announced HANDEL
Confirm aunt is at best confused SUBSTANTIATE
Extremely dull criminal I arrested DREARIEST
Follow only half of Marx’s doctrine DOGMA
Found black stuff in the street START
Go on to suffer setback YAP
High-rise accommodation for social workers? ANTHILL
Illegal substance CIA once concocted COCAINE
Loose woman putting last of opium in gin TRAMP
Nick, dangerous chap in the main PIRATE
Party hard? What an idiot I am! DOH
Posh girl acquiring top-class place to eat? That’s a matter of opinion DEBATABLE
Sailor putting scoundrel up TAR
Scarper, arguing occasionally RUN
Start to plead: I must have name BEGIN
Endlessly fooling around in fun, I admit AD INFINITUM
From rudely impatient indigenous people, pressure for start of entertainment CURTAIN UP
Very simply, the opposite of a surrender demand? HANDS DOWN
Runs away at bedtime? LIGHTS OUT
Patronising houri, health not suffering holier-than-thou
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