The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 01 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Academic taking E is finished DONE
After ten years National Trust in state of decline DECADENT
Band’s origin GENESIS
Beastly female guide chucking Henry out SOW
Card game making you cross? BRIDGE
Circus performer to make a run for it, I hear FLEA
Drunken star dies in accident DISASTER
Idiot whose whereabouts are a puzzle? WALLY
Instrument Scotsman found in river PIANO
Misbehaving peer loves to have a lie-in OVERSLEEP
Official’s real income misrepresented CEREMONIAL
Terminated some of proven dedication ENDED
The samurai somehow becoming clumsy AMATEURISH
Think about Mafia boss keeping fit dwell on
Use heroin regularly for a long time EON
What secret agent might use to see schooner? SPYGLASS
RUIN A FRENCH PARTY UNDO
Secluded spot for a break RECESS
Slowly move cart backwards, attaining timber store LUMBERYARD
Shortage of staff restricting chores when working in nursery PRESCHOOL
Recording movement of yacht around river TRACK
Recalled brief comment about hot TV show TELETHON
Ready to complain, losing head RIPE
Rascal in time will make mistakes ERRATA
Press to join mature holiday scheme PACKAGE
Old King heading for European conflict in days EDWARD
Observe — it’s acceptable to block fool LOOK ON
Monotonous sound of personnel in corporation THRUM
Love, in different ways, being swamped in a lake’s spray AEROSOL
Goes off climbing, keeping to a higher level in sort of fog? STUPOR
Get ready to shoot a picture, opening mostly depicting crow cock-a-doodle-doo
Dressing medic must stock indeed MAYO
Dessert needing Chartreuse — lots — sloshed charlotte russe
Country memorial housing a tavern REPUBLIC
Copper perhaps, crashing tractor into drink TERRACOTTA
Actually, excellent performer has run off DE FACTO
I start to complain and step back: it’s very cold ICE CAP
Source of protection potentially rickety and unstable security blanket