The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 06 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
AT A HIGHER LEVEL, VERY HAPPY ABOUT POPE'S LAST VERSE ELEVATED
Screw: one's sheared off FLEECE
JUST A LITTLE BITING INSECT INSIDE TIN SMIDGEN
China: a little souvenir, a miniature turned up IMARI
Salt, say, in short shanty? SEASON
Corn loaf good, far from soft? ear-splitting
Fetid coloured liquid entering wound STINKING
Fifteen from London run without clothes SARACENS
Fruit lover NUT
Gift opened by the scoundrel, one for Gordon Bennett BOTHERATION
God inspired by prayer a lot PLETHORA
Greeting cat, who's barking WOTCHA
Agent taking out female player ACTOR
Aircraft's self-assembly set with ultimate in glue KITE
Area final cut short, regrettably ALAS
Author George, essentially healthy ORWELL
Bird box on bank SPARROW
Brave bishop, elderly BOLD
Destroy object END
Good penalty FINE
Good-looking policeman, retiring DISHY
Guarded route across river WARY
Honest following row FRANK
Island's secret society backing racket within TRINIDAD
Manage to perform surgery OPERATE
Men lose it badly in important event MILESTONE
One's own role in play opening in London PERSONAL
Picture in periodical that is outside IMAGE
Senator ordered, editor declined RAN TO SEED
Slip into some red ones DON
Substitute, first of defenders booked RESERVED
Tolerant of one German keeling over during fast LENIENT
Singer in pub, on end of stage, holding it BARITONE
Around US state, Marxist stayed REMAINED
Dummy run in a mo, using bombing IGNORAMUS
Violent quarrel between family members and household servant DOMESTIC
After tango, miss catching heel of cabaret singer TOMTIT
A saint corrupted, and saint becoming sinner? SATANIST
I, Adam? FIRST PERSON
Legitimate target in coconut shy, possibly? FAIR GAME
Lighter and firm dip at the end of the day? SUNSET
Maximum taken in drink, spit it out! SPEAK UP
Type of course where golf played SANDWICH
Tea in angel's cup different — though in essence it's the same PLUS CA CHANGE
Taper lit up, designed primarily for small explosive PETARD
Swine painting Henry, satirical cartoonist HOGARTH
Subject almost ripe then? TOPIC
So concerned with partner REALLY
Rock found in ideal pudding served up in restaurant TRATTORIA
Ready for a good turn, foul defender KICKBACK
Preserved food appropriate after party CONFIT
Plastic fish COD
Middle of statue gilded, it's suggested — Cicero, say? ORATOR
SINGULAR STOCK PHRASE FOR MEN ONLY STAG