The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 06 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Force politician into fabrication of lie IMPEL
Support letters being rewritten TRESTLE
Remove dirt and make a fortune? CLEAN UP
Bloom sprang up ROSE
Old Peruvian ancestry shining brightly INCANDESCENT
Head of garrison more disposed to accept new infantryman GRENADIER
Rock plant lovers mostly want cultivated NAVELWORT
Cut back primarily on game POLO
Unconscious energy in lapse, unfortunately ASLEEP
One way heart's not breaking north-east
Sack Liberal leaving for dire crusade PILGRIMAGE
Bones Charlie removed from southern African capital SACRA
First note something reinvigorating TONIC
Do not put up with it casually at first! TONIC
Divorce somewhere in Croatia SPLIT
Acceptable footwear sailor finally carried towards land ONSHORE
Old bachelors engineered goal : it’s essential to the score OBBLIGATO
Instrument dismissed husband used to stab Welsh buccaneer MOUTH ORGAN
Tease lad eating core of rotting apple RIBSTON
Crown representative up north in ravine near choppy lake GOVERNOR GENERAL
Composer and Arctic explorer in one ROSSINI
Proper ceremony announced RIGHT
Tea and fruit taken round east of the Lizard? CHAMELEON
Alien after map for Mars, say? PLANET
New puppies possibly born in rubbish receptacle LITTER BIN
Cleaning brass? It’s an illegal activity MONEY LAUNDERING
They help us to see tiny spots, we hear SPECS
A GOOD UNIVERSAL CURE ULTIMATELY FOR MALARIAL FEVER AGUE
Enlarge woven blanket GENERAL
Second article removed from book, declare invalid ANNUL
It cuts tax, giving rise to unbecoming jocularity LEVITY
Aquatic plant identified by many around university LOTUS
By the sound of it, drops of water on grass expected DUE
Like a type of music exam taken after church CHORAL
Neat point about turnover of the old plant OXEYE
Write someone else’s book? That’s the spirit GHOST
Someone who tests old flame, a collier EXAMINER
Tower completely infested by nasty bug TUGBOAT
Where distance takes its toll, ultimately IN THE LONG RUN
Having brought up weapon, secure a lump of gold NUGGET
Useless-sounding vessel VEIN
Man decapitated before autumn, when it gets dark NIGHTFALL
Nothing new in literature, originally NIL
Loser initially on snakes — these better? LADDERS
Work found in bookshop, usually OPUS
One’s associated with a former politician’s excuses ALIBIS
Architect and town planner set up two hospitals NASH
Concern where painter's daubed PERTAIN
Stretch one leg, at random ELONGATE
Runner, one between two runs RACER
Antibody ailing gut badly needs initially AGGLUTININ
FIRM BELIEF IN MAN'S BEST FRIEND, MOTHER DOGMA
Introduce nutty dip REDUCTION
Aim to plug old piece of furniture that can be lengthened EXTENDABLE
Keen, agree to dance EAGER
Turn sea into land ESTONIA