The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2017 08 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Hold out against dire sister to some extent RESIST
Facts relating to cattle, as it were, giving element of inspiration OXYGEN
Bore witness to death, endlessly raving about trial ATTESTED
What’s met in ample numbers? PLENUM
Puppet containing magnet daughter manipulated for the last time? JUDGMENT DAY
Fancy comparison LIKING
IMAGE-PROMOTION IN CHURCH FOR RESIDENT AT PALACE? PRINCE
By river, right that one could take one’s clothes off AIRER
Location upset old boy — it's of no medical benefit PLACEBO
WALK IS DEPARTING FROM HEAVENLY GARDEN PARADE
Cleric on trial you worked out to be subversive type REVOLUTIONARY
Religious meals Georgia served up with mushy peas AGAPES
Criticise touching and lively performance KNOCKABOUT
AFFAIR TO BE OF CONSEQUENCE MATTER
No leading role in conman’s repeat offence? SECOND FIDDLE
Boss in newspaper article LEADER
RESTED TWENTY-FOUR HOURS SAT
SORT OF LIGHT, A SPEECH ABRIDGED FOR NEW ARRIVALS NEONATAL
First part of book? Letter to the Thessalonians CHI
Adage remaining with time passing SAYING
Little room with old instrument CELLO
British statesman, a fool from what we hear BURKE
Vast region — it's tricky for detectives maybe INVESTIGATORS
Nail that hurts when one old and cold enters makeshift bed STUDIO COUCH
This is not a puzzle with one new word, strangely NO WONDER
Lousy PM’s rare high point OLYMPUS
Rumba dancing in what is now Myanmar BURMA
Party in Ireland is corrupt DISCO
Gosh — birds clipped animals in paddock! gee-gees
Material put in gap for astronaut SPACER
One with Bible entering fool’s paradise NIRVANA
ONE NO GOOD USING AN OAR MAY BE GETTING UNDER ONE'S SKIN INGROWING
Key, before work, to find close friend ALTER EGO
Shoots hog outside eastern section of London church POETS CORNER
Rendering Frere Jacques say, or just messing about? PLAYING AROUND
MP I NOTED MOVING AROUND S EUROPEAN REGION PIEDMONT
ONE FETCHING WATER IN BUCKET, LATER A TUMBLER JILL
CHICKEN BROUGHT AT FIRST ON SALVER? BOILER
7 ACROSS NOT BAD, ACCORDING TO BLOKE JASPER
Good Greek character penning study about Italian food GNOCCHI
Break from home and office — about a year roughly STAYCATION
Small rise in pay coming up is worth mentioning TO SPEAK OF
A certain Pharisee, in drawing up set of laws, raised problem NICODEMUS
ONE MEASURES SHORT, PLUMP MICE, SKINNED OPTIC
Reaction to cold book introducing educational basics? BRRR
Couple in special relationship holding dangerous amount back: a puzzle SUDOKU
Opinion pollsters need pretentious criminal brought to book MORIARTY
Look after number one, excluding old girl and family save ones skin
Speech words to be taken down? No ta! DICTION
Like some television critic could see, endlessly rattled closed-circuit