The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 10 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
TEAR A STRIP OFF FLOOR COVERING CARPET
Deposing leader in panic is blunder ERROR
GO ROUND TWICE AT SPEED OOMPH
Plant's core yielded base for tequila AGAVE
Pirate very shortly at sea in armed vessel PRIVATEER
Bliss in getting back having sacked a great city NINEVEH
Continue to suppose parking not required RESUME
Duck carried in evil air VOICE
Example given by ancients originally INSTANCE
Instrument in boat capsized under fire SACKBUT
Lovely surprise? BOMBSHELL
Sort you’ll find in shanty, perhaps TYPE
Strange Argentine fruit TANGERINE
Saw person wandering in empty pub PROVERB
Dish: take hearts of some eels, feta and stew OMELETTE
River delta round top of Nile DON
Returning friend’s bad make-up SLAP
OAP perhaps is bold going topless, I note OLDIE
Noble and key united game DUCHESS
King meeting unruly body of soldiers REGIMENT
French restaurant chain mostly needs supporters up front BRASSERIE
Crustacean is lean crab, minced BARNACLE
Contracted second hospital to manage most of Kent SHRUNKEN
Bird’s repeated note DODO
So much French spirit causes outburst TANTRUM
Shade offered by some forest in Germany TINGE
Second-hand German missile decayed VICARIOUS
Back-to-back, various graduates dance SAMBA
What’s needed for mass change, reportedly ALTAR
What get-out clause may do regarding rental agreement RELEASE
What can run on green power, after replacing lead MOWER
Wandering rodent getting in damaged rice ERRATIC
Trial about old play such as King Lear TRAGEDY
Welshman drinking French wine cold, as was Leonardo DA VINCI
Supervisor carrying tea for each one shortly CHAPERON
Perished outside Luxor, finally preserved as mummy? DRIED
Native American soldier turned horse in a circle ARAPAHO
Fruit taken by river vessel diverts animals HIPPOPOTAMUSES
Cavalry is pressing round flank IRONSIDES
Argives initially invading pain an old Greek ACHAEAN