The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Finally he hangs out somehow in Japanese governor’s office shogunate
Fish deft anglers catch easily to begin with DACE
Greek mountain’s huge appeal OSSA
Doddery old bachelors originally living in outskirts of Whitby WOBBLY
Half of them sketch vaguely from beginning to end THROUGHOUT
Ignorant, but not tight, do we hear? UNTAUGHT
Instrument produced by graduates thus performing BASSOON
It thus set up a Roman port OSTIA
Italian poet’s heartless noble ARISTO
Join a former partner collecting news ANNEX
Lothario, perhaps? More like Solomon crossing eastern state WOMANISER
Makes start, sadly, as scourge of workforce? TASKMASTER
Maybe Chinese festival involving English sailors EASTERNER
Most balanced article written in small refuge SANEST
Quiet, more colourful piece of office equipment SHREDDER
Remorseful American hiding in an outhouse ASHAMED
Report of sludge in one of three rivers OUSE
Resident in Hampshire briefly entertaining a little INHABITANT
Scorer’s stock stories about start of match SMETANA
Speak indistinctly, losing marks at first, say UTTER
Spooky entertainer left president following golf GHOSTLIKE
Storyteller from Scottish island returning to centre of Kinross NARRATOR
Wavering of ambassador initially inept in post HESITATION
Bitter woman coming in to do a song SCATHING
Bloke keen, some say, to establish wine shop BODEGA
Cockney building boundary round field, moving slowly? EDGING
Common old man fed by priest before fast PREVALENT
Endlessly casting about, catching high-class marine creature SEA URCHIN
Envisage instruments originally employed in Enigma variation IMAGINE
Expression wears thin for listeners PHRASE
Fellow engaged in moral philosophy RALPH
Hindu queen administered island RANI
Fellow keeping oxen at first for beef MOAN
Fashionable cosmetic preparation for one vocalising in church INTONER
Empress’s army once carrying nerve gas TSARINA
Discharge former partner in robust health EXHALE
Communicate with bishop over satisfactory primer TEXTBOOK
City came first, securing last of five goals ultimately LEEDS
Aegean island some seek ostentatiously KOS
A second son, one behaving foolishly ASS
Insect originally good at digging for lost young? GADFLY
Italian citizens coming from same line somehow MILANESE
Like birds initially imported in a commercial vehicle AVIAN
Motto found in record kept by hospital SLOGAN
Opposed to books being dumped in main road ANTI
Outstanding old part of house OWING
Quiet girl on Irish river SHANNON
Scottish festival always associated with chap minding pigs? HOGMANAY
Shade used in houses regularly HUE
She was Boaz’s wife? Pity RUTH
Suppress comedian’s joke GAG
Track taking dog across river TRAIL
Uncouth old swimmer crossing centre of bay OAFISH
US politician caught deserter at end of rally DEMOCRAT
Fish on estate, perhaps, getting floral decoration GARLAND
General deliveries a couple of Liberals assembled OVERALL
In Tiepolo, a notable advance LOAN