The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 05 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Sanctimonious bunch making TV try-out PILOT
Purchase cheap newspaper during formal reception LEVERAGE
Plain retired vicar dipping into Holy Writ OVERT
Oscar, writing half-heartedly, finds opportunity OPENING
Clear-headed law lord covering island group LUCID
When speaking, beg for quarry PREY
Take courses in shelter? That’s most clever NEATEST
Support part of UK backing Asian republic INDIA
Strange chaps originally transmitting such miscellaneous items ODDMENTS
Story about king, one in early film TALKIE
Stop, for example, in Hebridean island COLONSAY
Some retired people wear one near formal strip NIGHTIE
Resolve to put off race crossing major road DETERMINATION
Onset of primitive impulse to eradicate PURGE
Gourmet cooked pie to preserve EPICURE
Like some churches, requiring expensive form of light STEEPLED
Uproar engendered by American supporting scrum RUCKUS
Honour over in Kiel, Bonn, etc ENNOBLE
Ungainly politician, one in luxurious environment LUMPISH
European state’s obsession involving church function MACEDONIA
Go-between — a pukka fellow! AGENT
Dry land reduced to powder GROUND
Wrongly cite touring superstar mostly attractive to viewers TELEGENIC
Uniformed employee in firm, initially managing task on river COMMISSIONAIRE
Cheap device for identifying stream by church PINCHBECK
Subject to terrible end in ancient city UNDER
Solitary person’s high honour featured in article abroad LONESOME
Risk backing old police force and its area of activity INCUR
Rings protractedly for tea OOLONG
An old railway hotel by river providing charitable accommodation? ALMSHOUSE
Club accommodating old vessel BOAT
Leader of union forcing rebellion UPRISING
Masterminds seeing Latin Lit translated INTELLIGENTSIA
Inclined to trap game, inviting legal action LITIGABLE
Bard’s work stirs writer primarily active around district SHAKESPEAREANA
Fail to be a turncoat, we hear? It’s intrusive KNOTGRASS
Spotted animal setter possibly observed on train coach dog