The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 10 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Cut short weed DOCK
Bird an impatient landlord might hope to secure? SWIFTLET
Letters or cards? CHARACTERS
Journalist has penned awfully drab sort of book HARDBACK
Doorman’s company getting Hebridean beauty in trouble COMMISSIONAIRE
Brief opportunity to secure Omani, perhaps, as coach CHARABANC
Servant, awful brute about 50 BUTLER
Bishop abandons climb I’m for circulating in celluloid MICROFILM
Eat quickly and run off BOLT
Drug supplied by ambassador meeting politician HEMP
A rage rejected by a lean American trapeze artist AERIALIST
A brute keeping right up to date ABREAST
Entry in brief is calculation relating to tax revenues FISCAL
Burrowing insect duke removed from flower-bed BORER
Harbour drink left PORT
Sit awkwardly in breeze, becoming upset DISTRAUGHT
Red-nosed drunk is given support ENDORSED
Army officer to slip and go to ground COLLAPSE
Ruler good, following relations KING
Most fretful sorceress, one participating in experiment TWITCHIEST
A pot's one unusual kitchen item TEASPOON
Word in India for transport hubs TERMINI
Business folk are primarily chaps AGENTS
Pride’s initial spur for his historical act? PURGE
Surrounded by fairies, she dies PERISHES
Close friend to regale excitedly ALTER EGO
School outside American station EUSTON
Hood, for example? Old hat originally worn around city OUTLAW
Girl consuming a side dish in Mumbai? RAITA
Fail to attend again? That’s careless REMISS
Bird's preserved food? Could be a problem CAN OF WORMS
Star seen in massive gallery VEGA
Urge initially to understand an Indo-European language PUSHTU
University club housing old submarine U-boat
Quick glance, half-heartedly, over last of jasmine tea PEKOE
Person drawing vessel in Home Counties river SKETCHER
Permit husband to leave fungus on church LICENCE
O for a means to disseminate information! CIRCULAR LETTER
Friend in Prague reportedly winning position on board? CHECKMATE