The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Scented mixture first brought back for French king and emperor POTPOURRI
Slow road engulfed by Scottish river TARDY
Storyline inspiring current TV try-out, perhaps PILOT
Union leader forcing insurrection UPRISING
Bestow first class mark: you’ll see it in Cambridge GRANTA
Botched manicure dreadful, ultimately, in digits? NUMERICAL
Cleaning part of building, coming across burnt remains WASHING
Declares valuable items when crossing border, finally ASSERTS
Heavily built, yet am shoved around MEATY
I run up and check PIN RIVET
I’d put in note reflecting change EDIT
Language of Inland Revenue is hard IRISH
Not prepared for revolution, or major conflict WAR
Only second half of hymn is formal and dignified SOLEMN
Right to stop daily cake: it causes skin condition! SUNBURN
Sultanate, British, and a French one BRUNEI
Surprise as some Birmingham bus hijacked AMBUSH
Toughest RAF training in great demand sought-after
What we may have in summer for a period of instruction LESSON
Wasteful academic delayed welcoming soldier back PROFLIGATE
Pungent account run by certain papers ACRID
Primitive tribe finally allowed a man to keep servants ELEMENTAL
Source of light a big hit in space GAS LAMP
Sign on apartment maybe one removed from gents? to let
Mad Peter and I out for a spin PIROUETTE
Lukewarm fare served up quietly inside TEPID
Pastry dishes brought up for daughter in Warks town STRATFORD
Oscar having to hang around to do some housework? HOOVER
Leaping over arched work in roof VAULTING
Give away extremely useful key in seedy bar DIVULGE
Genuine misprint LITERAL
Excessively sentimental message? Not entirely TWEE
Drink a politician offered, depending on chance ALEATORY
Devout Cockney crossing green in full view OVERTLY
Hairdressers, perhaps, try less rearranging STYLERS
Each set of figures suitable for consumption EATABLE
Close relation starts to sing in shower SIS
A holiday-maker is more affected CAMPER
Worsted yarn wife found in fish basket CREWEL
Reason for fading light in part of Leinster? WICKLOW
Plant soldiers concealed outside entrance to camp ORCHID
Oddly it draws in a believer in natural selection DARWINIST
Like some wine yours truly had talked of, showing no emotion dry-eyed
Libertine group originally haunting a former capital LOTHARIO
Dared do cleaner‘s job, getting round resistance DURST
Ambassador in temperate area — a character! THETA
Country house girl introducing European verse form VILLANELLE