The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 06 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Vital force only somewhat achievable CHI
Elderly Cockney’s influence OLD
Very different topic has fellow on strike TANGENT
Top left OUTSTANDING
Steps taken in Scotland as corrupt regime shot slippery character EIGHTSOME REEL
Back in Paris, I annoy local French citizen LYONNAIS
Arrogant school bowler, perhaps high hat
A couple of lines penned by each girl ELLA
Sailor not at home? That’s concerning ABOUT
Wet day touring site in need of development MOISTEN
Foul places knight visits heaving dull sigh dunghills
The setter having sprung up, cuckoo setting off EMBARKING
Lincoln’s assassin, by front of stage, stalls BOOTHS
Exhorts, in French, to marry son ENJOINS
Secure document for manual worker? nail file
Fellow spun round endlessly EDDIE
Shot, use weapon STAB
Pilgrimage starts off hopeful and joyful journey HAJJ
Magnificent nose broken by nice deceptive left PRINCELY
Long Tube journey in minute strip light
In conclusion, good time promised ENGAGED
Returning favour to Ms Darling perhaps, as compensation SAVING GRACE
Told stories added by brief, regularly recalled FIBBED
Wandering around Virginia, on allowance VAGRANT
Capital needed, get old man to invest cash, finally BAGHDAD
Business money secures gripping tool, mostly for machine on plantation cotton gin
Puzzle briefly referring to river AMAZON
Pocket purse POT
Widespread agitating I’d suffer endlessly DIFFUSE
Acting so uncertain — is one? AGNOSTIC
Shocking — as a secret? UNMENTIONABLE
Manage to flee RUN
Shifts hell for old servant TURNSPIT
Particular bit of fish, unpleasant FINICKY
Even better, one's peaked FLAT CAP
Dope and speed in compound NITRATE
Decent reason for play area FAIRGROUND
Blooming disheartening final test FLORAL
Beyond belief originally, irregular accent BROGUE
A dribbling Tory? right-winger
American Symphony Orchestra in Newark, last of all YANK