The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Where two gentlemen were putting up an old cleric VERONA
Captain beginning to skin smoked fish SKIPPER
Copy first of adult games APE
Young male wolf, perhaps, meeting a Trojan queen HECUBA
Nimble US soldier drowning in beer AGILE
Water down cement mix used by inspector DILUTE
Where fish may be kept, as in part of opera AQUARIA
In favour of job suggestion PROPOSITION
Perfect force having no rules FLAWLESS
Reportedly vote against animal noise NEIGH
Hoteliers lost stray cat perhaps TORTOISESHELL
Say a cult transformed injured party CASUALTY
Seasoning on one sausage PEPPERONI
Trust from worker perhaps covering cover up BELIEVE
Grip cold electrical appliance CLAMP
Former railway employee is one sending goods out EXPORTER
First signs of horsefly's unwelcome, exasperating appearance HUE
Fearing losing head studying READING
Passenger bill includes rodent GERBIL
Part of foot in church INCH
Sounds made by seagulls in stable yard MEWS
Cornered brick carrier holding returned chicken product HOGGED
Oddly hear poet producing musical HAMILTON
Rotten team not in position to score OFFSIDE
He painted a dancer and extremely old violin, originally leonardo da vinci
Happen to live well at last, having crossed Cornish river BEFALL
Grain, bivalve mollusc, and roadside plant CORNCOCKLE
Fish markets principally in Scottish island, and German one BARRAMUNDI
Wood regularly found in vellum ELM
Valediction from a girl at Brussels ADIEU
Deliver post, including notes identifying roof timber RIDGEPOLE
Concentrated way we count decimally: it’s very easy at first INTENSIVE
Change loose dress SHIFT
Check uranium in mine entrance AUDIT
Land due to turbulence? That’s knotty NODULATED
US composer defending old times in country dwelling COTTAGE
Unexpected role Garland’s taken on — a siren LORELEI
Took part in parade, urged to protect commander PROCESSED
Practise too hard in cricket period, having a number of coaches OVERTRAIN
Source of heating abandoned by British tanker OILER
Some fancy a nice greenish-blue colour CYAN
Expression of disapproval over universal ballet wear TUTU
Duck coming across large person wielding spadelike tool SHOVELLER