The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2017 08 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Utter mess! STATE
FRENCH DEPARTMENT'S ITEMS FOR SALE LOTS
Not in shape SQUARE
Obtain different angle GLEAN
Soldier must take queen back, one feels ANTENNA
MAKE GREEN TEA THAT'S GOING TO POT GENERATE
First of all, I'm dismayed: I'm ostensibly the fool IDIOT
Wild party's bloody good towards the end ORGY
COMPOSE A POEM TO SIAM, OLD ASIAN REGION MESOPOTAMIA
Seed that may come up unchanged PIP
Good wedding attendant: well? GUSHER
Effect of one parliamentary bill introduced by member IMPACT
Deer relative heading for tundra, still STAGNANT
COPY NANCY'S DAD TUCKING INTO MEXICAN FOOD BEFORE DRIVE BACK tape-record
UPSIDE-DOWN EGG CONTAINER TIN
AMANDA AND SUE SKIPPING TILL SICKNESS STRIKES AD NAUSEAM
REMEMBERS WHAT BABY SITTER DOES WHEN VISITING? CALLS TO MIND
FISH WITH A TAIL IN MUSIC? CODA
No longer working, went upstairs RETIRED
A Liberal ahead of each rival? That's dicey ALEATORY
BIRD BOARDING SNAZZY CAR IN EUROPEAN CITY GHENT
SOMETHING ADDED BEHIND SECOND MUSCLE TRICEPS
Something chewed filled with outstanding sauce CUSTARD
Writer developed endlessly dire theme MEREDITH
Desire that’s in our genes URGE
REMOVING CENTRE FROM CORN ON THE COB IS A PUZZLE MAZE
Laughed, finding light at back of dump CHUCKLED
Get on with English recruit ENGAGE
GERSHWIN, SAY, HEADING OUT OF ITALIAN CAPITAL ONCE IRA
Suggest place where fighting's appropriate, close to battlefield PUT FORWARD
Joiner, groom initially embraced by his partner? BRIDGE
Damned old car stuck in River Dee EXECRATED
ONE'S BEATEN FISH ALMOST SENSELESS? THAT'S ABOUT RIGHT BASS DRUM
One on foot claiming wine is a snack! TOASTIE
Perhaps affected by pickle I consumed, having mostly foul content IN A STATE
Very soon on, outwardly tense TONIGHT
Terrified about cardinal getting involved in extremely serious argument SCARED STIFF
PREPARE FOR PUNISHMENT ... AND RELAX: FINISHED BEND OVER
Church can fill emptiness, it's said VOICED
Without source of water, horse got very hot STEWED
MOST LOYAL EMPLOYEE ORIGINALLY RECRUITED BY HOSPITAL GROUP TRUEST
Relish wind over peak in Oman GUSTO
Fighter — German of course — holding aloft ensign regularly NINJA
Trojan woman I'd caress excitedly CRESSIDA
Jumpy chap sees cinema matinee initially as way of avoiding reality ESCAPE MECHANISM
Weapon launched, grandee distraught GRENADE
Capital city with love for great lover ROMEO
Airman about to climb over a kilometre ERK
TRIP SOUTH BEFORE FALL STUMBLE
Sources of vitamin administered orally for tropical disease BERIBERI
Adequate and honest RESPECTABLE
OPPONENT MEANTIME OUSTS THIS PERSON TWICE ANTI
More docile sailor kidnaps me TAMER