The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 03 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Sales pitch — or brief example PATTER
Sort of figure one must reform rough girl HOURGLASS
Where book festival is anyhow being broadcast you can follow hay-on-wye
Adult's complaint heard and raised grown-up
Article upset stage show's backer ANGEL
Being broadcast? Extract from Wagnerian opera coming up ON AIR
Crooked scheme rascal detailed SCAM
Famous painting in oils a man vandalised MONA LISA
Former chief magistrate imprisoning duke for deception DODGE
Former partner given sufficient warning EXAMPLE
Fruit and nuts, mostly BANANA
Golf club: Irish one, not English IRON
Informed, foremost of teachers getting on in years TOLD
Leader of Opposition helping to produce speech ORATION
Miserable maids, mistreated, left DISMAL
Pick out deity if name initially bandied about IDENTIFY
Pleasure-seeker's complaint involving a bad back GADABOUT
Provider of beef under an age BSE affected ABERDEEN ANGUS
Represent chaps holding answer MEAN
Rotten worker, curt OFFHAND
Slow learner expected to take in new chapter DUNCE
Some actors opening trunk TORSO
Terrible just losing face AWFUL
Unsophisticated fictional detective picked up play on words HOMESPUN
COLD FISH? HOLD ON! CLING
Accumulate a large amount AMASS
Reject Percy, not very fashionable name SPURN
Player securing fine wicket — a declaration may follow it act of war
Ordinary language appeared elevated on page PROSE
In a hurry, Harry, not having arrived in front of George HYING
I maintain champion has lost his head UPHOLDER
Horrified to have a good speed limited AGHAST
Follow after stolen food HOT DOG
Chuck beer heartily over top bouncer bungee-jumper
Birds, egg-layers for reproduction, full of goodness greylag geese
A little fruit one’s taken into shower RAISIN
A fool for quietly producing fake news? AGITPROP