The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 11 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A time for cooking, swallowing fish bones METACARPI
Cockney Bob, say, interrupting female’s call for equality FAIR DOS
Conservative member punching chair person high on face? ROCK CLIMBER
Convey what wrong answers may do GET ACROSS
Defender about to overplay ball breaking leg CHAMPION
Exhibiting bust key, holding pass DECOLLETE
Full figure for one clad in Italian outfit INTEGER
Heartless rogue stars in Dickens, say REALIST
Hit runs during a defeat in sub-par performance ALBATROSS
Legal documents Lawrence initially put in drawers PATENTS
Merchant banks to try out an account provider STORYTELLER
Quick-witted stage hero bags one grand in card game FIGARO
Right iPhone broken, and no case for phone charger RHINO
Scatter cream on wife BESTREW
Shot frenetic Bourne film BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Snake oil, say, in no way unusual NOSTRUM
Star squeezed into little girdle, pirouetting RIGEL
Transport not fully occupied BUS
Ascetic American hiding in a tree, dishevelled AUSTERE
Beat in court, briefly causing outcry CLAMOUR
Decorum in dirty hovel, way above MODESTY
Flush and terribly sorry, having lost heart ROSY
Fool knocking container over NIT
Imperfections — bedding material must be sent back WARTS
Like a new business celebrity meeting organised workers quietly start-up
Make idle one react differently, slowing down DECELERATION
Odd drips around a fast-flowing stream RAPIDS
Prepare for war — notice a fleet prepared to attack our shores ARMADA
Ringing sound in prison CLINK
See land as focus of attention SPOTLIGHT
Smart trick STING
Strange bottom, bottom not to be seem! RUM
Take no notice of Italian man heading off IGNORE
Think about getting proficient, becoming hugely important CONSIDERABLE
Utterly depressed, correct? DOWNRIGHT
Wild beast's jaw YAK
Wine provided in summer — lots MERLOT