The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 03 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Backchat? It’s marginal LIP
Colossal, as is star’s study? ASTRONOMICAL
Colour of a courtyard, mainly AQUA
Condition of rugby forward attracting gossip LOCKJAW
Diarmuid, Irishman holding back what’s in platinum alloy? IRIDIUM
Doting fan has circuit to follow LAPDOG
Gorky’s words of wisdom? MAXIM
Lampoons SNP logo: a fish, oddly SPOOFS
Lift raincoat to find part of shaft CAM
Miss is fanatical, grabbing ring AVOID
Pal mob’s jostling showing sangfroid APLOMB
PM’s corrupt payouts AUTOPSY
Russian conductor of choir provost put right ROSTROPOVICH
Sluggishly, and awfully idly, going round Australia DOZILY
Taxis to join up, moving about in proximity JUXTAPOSITION
Tug, small, for US nationals YANKS
US dustbins found in carwash can stink! ASHCANS
What was for writing in quiz, mostly fifty-fifty QUILL
Who in class knows what’s said by gunman? hands up
WI location: BA has to carry mum BAHAMAS
What may cover grave at heart of chapel? EPITAPH
Spare place finally accepted by officer not attached to body EXTRACORPOREAL
Significance of ring, perhaps, and why it isn’t answered engaged signal
Shot leaving car at home here? on drive
Potty is available for president MADISON
Nocturnal creature, European, eaten by man GENET
Missing centrepiece of meals, hurried for a big shop SUPERSTORE
It can produce regenerated tail, no trouble NEWT
For carnivore, flesh: let me see a kilo being eaten MEERKAT
Excellent man on island holiday good friday
Evasively holding up entry permit VISA
Demanding some coffee INSTANT
Deft, I drew out tangle drift-weed
Counters a disease vector, cutting off half ABACI
Contrived paintings, one functionary’s short of ARTIFICIAL
Arab is soon to return OMANI
African winger to go round, arrowing crosses over: just headers TOURACO
A single voracious fish announced, one demanding huge interest? loan shark