The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 01 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
1000, say; slightly more ones and zeroes MEGABIT
Capital made of gossip — PC covered in shame panama city
Come to a halt by front of pub in Ireland EXPIRE
Day trip in need of whacking great deposit pay dirt
Do reduce your litter! sell a pup
Drive away reformed killer, perhaps, wiser after case dismissed EXORCISE
Elders quietly replaced by trees next to railway PRESBYTERY
Evidently need oil pipe SQUEAK
Force king to accept a top politician’s charter map-maker
Go free from Baltic? ZING
Graduate getting zero on a stiff paper MANILA
Old sailor wearing light, tight garment LEOTARD
Poet’s light, mostly obscene book day-lewis
Standard, one consistently falling short COMMON
Tips on weapons hardware, so varied ARROWHEADS
WHERE CRICKETERS PRACTISE CATCHES NETS
Amphibian originally featuring in sci-fi film EFT
Approaches engendered by certain scorers? OVERTURES
Dull piece of floor-covering MAT
Expert identifying species of flatfish DAB
Fellow doctor at fight COMBAT
Flexible individual initially visiting ruined castle ELASTIC
Headless rodent by barrier in European capital AMSTERDAM
Helper on vessel talked of for a number of years DECADE
Learner in group lacking illumination UNLIT
Musician’s device satisfied small number in capital METRONOME
Old sailor damages hot saline boggy area salt marsh
Part of circle primarily haunting gateway, perhaps ARCH
President Lincoln’s tip for second son? ABEL
Row about granny’s first big cat TIGER
Singer in bar given banknote, we hear COUNTERTENOR
Stiffened fabric a couple of male animals required BUCKRAM
Succeed ultimately, say, as painter and sculptor DEGAS
Titled person needing oxygen in Greater London borough BARONET
Torment omnivorous nocturnal mammal BADGER
Close relative runs into trouble BROTHER
Back firm briefly employing family member SECOND COUSIN
What shoppers do after failure to find cooking ingredient LEMON GRASS
Vague desire maybe to get husband for Yankee lady at last wishy-washy
Animated cow in garden to barge in after hesitation ERMINTRUDE