The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 08 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Office admirer going round old city BUREAU
Northern city shows the way, I hear LEEDS
Nothing in pub for a snuffling customer? BOAR
Money invested in Moscow perhaps CAPITAL
Old judge will imprison one, that’s clear EXONERATE
Saintly men let loose in touching way SENTIMENTALLY
Religious leader’s endless talk RABBI
Woman certain to boot Republican out SUE
Uncommunicative soldier PRIVATE
Two imbeciles at home revealing killer ASSASSIN
Alarmed, began to throttle first of louts STARTLED
Amateur plays Nero in disastrous fashion LAYPERSON
Inventor working after team set up EDISON
Drinking and engaging in amorous activity? NECKING
Englishman down under employing cleaner from the east POM
Grab a customer pinching calculator ABACUS
Late up, along with others ET AL
Test 50 per cent of people as a warning EXAMPLE
The drugs said to bring you comfort? EASE
Idiot half-cut lodger attacking one? MUGGER
Something left out of old assignment OMISSION
Pub’s motto, possibly? BOTTOMS UP
Attempt to capture tree’s branching pattern TRACERY
Being incapable when about to drink alcohol is not to be tolerated UNSUPPORTABLE
Requests jobs taking no time at all ASKS
Run small van in which it is easy to crash? SCAMPER
Scarcity of boxes containing pictures, with 100 missing SPARSENESS
Undecided and nervous about tango NEUTRAL
Unseated by horse, one the Queen’s sat on, reportedly? THROWN
Walk home PAD
Bird’s endless murmur COO
Boisterous girl getting home by boat HOYDEN
Infantile mistake about an extra cut BABYISH
Reason one’s seeking carpet dealer’s style? FORMAT
People very angry about new family MANKIND
One teaching acting ability that moves people? STAGECOACH
Note in race 100% rising for near winner runner-up
Low-down about right pain producing wine GRENACHE
Law about British billions remains RUBBLE
Female holding up opening part of choral piece STROPHE
Bowler, perhaps, English cannot stand HATE
Fancy the man supporting wife WHIM
Expert adviser is relentless about fuel regularly being wasted CONSULTANT
English following Queen close in strange Brexit vote? REFERENDUM
Each cubicle is deficient in oxygen BOTH
Doctor has a duty in time of want DROUGHT
Coming in to arrange licence dealing with spirits ANGELIC
The French irritated by English game LACROSSE
Boats carrying a number of instruments TUBAS
Reportedly chose chap from Scotland PICT
Do they help one see the details? SPECS
Bans others spoiling something in the woods BASSET HORN
Using electronics is old hat on board — rubbish diode, ultimately solid-state
Typical boys’ toys — racing’s ending in terrible tragedy GADGETRY
Starts to take in folder in auto? JUMP SEAT
Reconstructed by police with newer aid to facial definition EYEBROW PENCIL