The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 12 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Face leader avoiding furious debate DIALECTIC
Patriarch against wearing Hawaiian garland LEVI
CONSTANT CONTRIBUTOR TO EMPLOY ALUMNI LOYAL
A boxer good at putting up a guard? WATCHDOG
Awards zero marks OSCARS
Bond needed in companies' crowdfunding ESCROW
Charlie smuggled by decoy for ill-gotten gains LUCRE
Fast runner — he holds a record at first HARE
Intolerant people try to get involved in scraps BIGOTS
It's painful parking after fitness centre closes early GYP
Salvage works outside small desert city LAS VEGAS
Slump, depressed, next to item in playground DOWNSWING
Sport: tired, endlessly WEAR
Various different means of being delivered SAVIOUR
Press cavalry to provide engine once IRON HORSE
Run out, suspicious about stone platform ROSTRUM
Very soft bread dipped in gravy? SOP
Vet tailed by vehicle is cut up CARVE
When shattered, I forgot to strive for success GO FOR IT
Irish speaker’s turn of phrase in heavy metal IRIDIUM
Players, being experts, restricting lock ACTRESSES
One marks (twice) poems ending in sentiment? Shameless! IMMODEST
One covering couples in car damaged in New York? INSURANCE POLICY
No-account Roman historian's religious book TITUS
Make saint transgress, coming about in boat CANONISE
Island force caught up in attack: be shocked HAVE A FIT
Gallon consumed by renowned pilot Harry BADGER
Where Joan of Arc died is in question AT STAKE
Fellow venturing to unseat last bureaucrat MANDARIN
Coward say to strike out verse from fictional work NOEL
Country cottage: one having to stoop? BOWER
Constant frost beginning to abate in peninsula CRIMEA
Church on rocky outcrop set ablaze TORCH
Sailor originally rowed into state by river MARINER
Karate instructor is seen getting beaten up SENSEI
Crime of passion is initially risqué PIRACY
A long time mostly producing fodder FORAGE
Dismiss from racecourse, days later red-card