The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Recommend a chap to Sue? ADVOCATE
Remove arresting officer? That’s quite revealing DECOLLETE
Rogue president entertaining a streetwalker? PEDESTRIAN
Solicitor having bite to eat in pub BEGGAR
Sum of £1000 in cash MONKEY
Thus female must enter church on time THENCE
Twice finished burnt? OVERDONE
Avoiding contact when old spies call, finally ASOCIAL
Bad-tempered friend of Mole RATTY
Bishop, one supporting boxer’s defence ALIBI
Check on one foreign character CHI
Choose gal misbehaving, old enough to be taught a lesson? school-age
Corpses rotten fellow declares CADAVERS
Fancy Italian offloading a drug DIGITALIN
Fascinated by Badminton shows INTO
Gamble: cut it fine? DICE
Girl training in gym originally getting fit ADAPTING
I’m returning cake, evenly cut, for boy MICK
Joint I hesitate to say in street’s for trendies HIPSTERS
Not much left in rubbish mostly LITTLE
Note article by small auction house SOTHEBYS
Restless natives, most proud! VAINEST
Short coil can, when twisted LACONIC
Speaks idly of Nato, terse, never coming to a conclusion NATTERS
Transforming hospital, minor GP reforms MORPHING
Unhappy to have head dropping commercials ADS
Very quietly tucking into beer and fruit APPLE
Word of gratitude repeated for so long ta-ta
Profile of Tory leading expedition CONTOUR
Mischievously stole time, finding excuse for a kiss? MISTLETOE
Insult female cashier DISMISS
Harry succeeded in safe surroundings PESTER
Get rid of Republican, keeping quiet about it ERASE
Gamble when duke retreats, eliminated ICED
Found among sarcophagi on ancient island IONA
English teacher suspicious in absence of head’s representative EMISSARY
Egg-laying creature quietly burrowing into ground TERRAPIN
Doctor adored Liberal woman past her prime? old dear
Colonel losing millions: not what one expected? BLIP
Cockney put on payroll, creating resentment IRE
City hotel, an old one HANOI
Censor right-wing writer blue-pencil
Case of criminal instructor having run off CONTAINER
Bounds of empire shifting over time? I’m not sure PERIMETER
Behold very large European general LOOSE
Amateur player from incredibly rich nation CORINTHIAN