The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Funny person entertaining first of tourists in English city PRESTON
Old French artist, largely upset AGED
Poem's code is nonsensical rot! DECOMPOSE
Odd parts of champ’s headgear CAP
Some light fish RAY
Stop part of song REFRAIN
Sweets in aspic, and yucky! CANDY
Turn nasty before claret served up MEANDER
Unbeliever elected Castro, say? INFIDEL
Main safety equipment activated, initially SEA
Cool person holds it, never flustered NERVE
Bombed fort vanished quickly hand over fist
Big bandages? STRAPPING
Learner entering boxing contest steps up FLIGHT
Untrue story I tell is curtailed, interrupted by sign of drunkenness MYTHICAL
Twisted neck is amongst items for discussion, linked to small difficulty in travelling motion sickness
The writer recalled year in care of relative as starting-point EMBRYO
Teacher rejected elevating component of education? About time TUTOR
Support doctor over operation in wider context BACKDROP
Fill house PAD
Potassium in European waste material: I found it EUREKA
One appearing to race to embrace corporation up in suburbia? commuter belt
Large amount brought back by very good shooter PISTOL
Expert fulfilled ACCOMPLISHED
Is written in a document in error AMISS
Dog collars on rectors getting itchy, originally CORGI
Devoted to someone, one has rewritten novel in love
Council disheartened by current measure for parking intervention CLAMP
A few men returned bearing British headgear SOMBRERO
Cutting bone, crack around it GASHING
Cut fasteners up SNIP
Protect two companies, one briefly COCOON
Wrong ten grades — not close ESTRANGED
Vessels? Pour water into area, accommodating collection FLOTILLA
Security I provided to Scottish town jurisdiction BAILIWICK
King and Ace encapsulating power and fate KARMA
Hire arrangement involving bill? It is roughly about property CHARACTERISTIC
First hole OPENING
Getting here requires a few flights — starts on awfully tense trip in chopper ATTIC