The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 11 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A group working in desert ABANDON
Light Muscat or Chablis bottles TORCH
A trotter for cooking? AFOOT
Bullying bear, supposedly, in heartless Tory THUGGERY
Country gent, oddly evil MALIGN
Dead giant in play TOTALLY
Free show on Five VINDICATE
In good time, like a nobleman quite possibly? EARLY
Lack of belief in time has dissipated ATHEISM
Have fun in small place like Dover? SPORT
Reader put off leaving DEPARTURE
Say no to waste! REFUSE
Mog kept rhino? KITTY
Old fighter added old weapon CLAYMORE
Part of ship first of all in urgent need, wrecked in storm GUNWALE
Maturer blokes somehow becoming rabble-rousers TROUBLEMAKERS
Handing cards out twice? That’s cheating double-dealing
Soon begrudge going into work PRESENTLY
Found leading tennis match? SET UP
When picked up, character leaves TEA
Floating marketing division ADRIFT
Change in bottom line REARRANGE
Calf in a state? NEW JERSEY
Awfully unimportant: a UK leader in crisis — stop perhaps? PUNCTUATION MARK
Action English novelist mentioned WAR
Dolly, an artist’s model SITTER
Eliminate king in peace ERASE
Festival given name from China? EASTERN
Friend in Paris, clever and cheerful AMIABLE
Goods in river an annoyance NIGGLE
Reptilian, one providing extra publicity? PUFF ADDER
Some feared capricious military cop REDCAP
Parent cut up about teenager, primarily PATER
Lord perhaps having a way to open port ARISTO
Secure gnome — feller? CHAINSAW
Dish served in bistro’s tinned! ROSTI
Vanish, as will setter taking exercise? GO WALKIES
An idiot in Belgian port ANTWERP
Conservative failure is not so far away CLOSER
Doctor loves crack SOLVE
Small amount earned from singer, I hear TENNER