The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 05 22

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