The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 12 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Throw drunkard over top of seawall TOSS
Artist is easy at first to uplift RAISE
Astute woman in outskirts of Coventry CANNY
Boat race oddly grips one — like spectacular flying! AEROBATIC
Caterpillar food? GRUB
Ditzy type can test briar, surprisingly SCATTERBRAIN
Extraordinary claims surrounding university entertainment MUSICAL
Extremely dodgy, unpleasant line of hereditary rulers DYNASTY
Fairly broad bowl used by women’s organisation WIDISH
Guards losing head finding gates, perhaps ENTRIES
Heavenly body in need of a man-made hormone STEROID
Originally living under tree, like a wolf LUPINE
Parrot originally making a sound like a crow MACAW
Plant listening device in pub, catching English bête noire BUGBEAR
Reportedly how one may ill-treat a dog? WHIPPET
Thriller turned out down in hut WHODUNNIT
Archdeacon always displaying specious refinement VENEER
Unusual exam conceals one trap ORIGINAL
At a certain angle, church is gleaming RADIANCE
Avoided players given cards at ground ESCHEWED
Detention of gunman finally in act of disposing of body INTERNMENT
Imagine no end of malice against one guru ENVISAGE
Innovators recycling DNA at grave avant-garde
Naive, taking no coin to pub INNOCENT
Off on holiday here, stuck originally between two short men? STANSTED
Old ship’s slow movement leaving loch ARGO
Part of vital passage where island crop is transported SPINAL CORD
Plainly written name in iced cake EN CLAIR
Poet in turn welcomed by fat cat LEOPARD
Possible source of Conference’s sparkling repartee PEAR TREE
Shape up to buy a suitcase GET A GRIP
Stop-go manoeuvre in snow STEM TURN
Sweet, part of lunch occasionally? CHOC
What we may have on our mind before work? PREOCCUPATION