The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Water down cement mix used by inspector DILUTE
Where fish may be kept, as in part of opera AQUARIA
Captain beginning to skin smoked fish SKIPPER
Copy first of adult games APE
Fearing losing head studying READING
First signs of horsefly's unwelcome, exasperating appearance HUE
Grip cold electrical appliance CLAMP
In favour of job suggestion PROPOSITION
Nimble US soldier drowning in beer AGILE
Part of foot in church INCH
Perfect force having no rules FLAWLESS
Reportedly vote against animal noise NEIGH
Rotten team not in position to score OFFSIDE
Say a cult transformed injured party CASUALTY
Trust from worker perhaps covering cover up BELIEVE
Young male wolf, perhaps, meeting a Trojan queen HECUBA
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
Where two gentlemen were putting up an old cleric VERONA
Sounds made by seagulls in stable yard MEWS
Some fancy a nice greenish-blue colour CYAN
Practise too hard in cricket period, having a number of coaches OVERTRAIN
Land due to turbulence? That’s knotty NODULATED
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
Valediction from a girl at Brussels ADIEU
Expression of disapproval over universal ballet wear TUTU
Wood regularly found in vellum ELM
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
Seasoning on one sausage PEPPERONI
Passenger bill includes rodent GERBIL
Oddly hear poet producing musical HAMILTON
Hoteliers lost stray cat perhaps TORTOISESHELL
Former railway employee is one sending goods out EXPORTER
Cornered brick carrier holding returned chicken product HOGGED
Fish markets principally in Scottish island, and German one BARRAMUNDI
Duck coming across large person wielding spadelike tool SHOVELLER
Source of heating abandoned by British tanker OILER