The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2017 09 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Grabbing points, Lions take the lead PRESIDE
SEARCH HAS DOCTOR AFTER POISONOUS GAS COMB
Garden pest misused energy, consuming tops of flowers GREENFLY
Charlie’s fruit dessert? FOOL
Receiving a hint, the day before one's pulled out EVACUEE
Bull in Paris, say, destroyed site of ancient monument SALISBURY PLAIN
Night work, the result of earth tremors in Highgate? GRAVEYARD SHIFT
Gunmen returning to scene of shooting set out ARRANGE
Bawdy university sportsman BLUE
Note your comments on it and you may well eat your words RICE PAPER
Bound to admit sin if panic-stricken TERRIFIED
Antelope’s endless combination of style and vigour ELAN
Stupidity of obnoxious person reversing round trees DOPINESS
One pound given in change for butcher’s job MUTILATION
Retired woman and man selected for special duty DETAILED
MALE BIRD IDENTIFYING POISONOUS PLANT MANDRAKE
A woman’s song about British plant collections HERBARIA
Serial on TV that elevates public speaker? soap box
Join convict, English, in body of plane FUSELAGE
Rogue artist's name ultimately forgotten RASCAL
Absolutely unresponsive group DEAD SET
Squash, enough and to spare beside drained tumbler TRAMPLE
VIP taking old woman on river GRANDEE
Professional soldier’s uniform REGULAR
Man penning volume, a work of fiction NOVEL
Golfers, last to start, show no fluency SPUTTER
Need boil lanced? That’s unlikely to work BONE IDLE
Subdue section of media after work OPPRESS
Set of instructions for putting on weight PROGRAM
Prostrate supports BACKS UP
Senior officer’s pass COL
Two legs visible to the audience ONSTAGE
Conceited individual originally carried in commercial vehicle VAIN
Act as volunteers, getting second highest grade BETA
Cautious, wife having retreated, tipsy AWRY
A second dog climbing tree BALSA
Flirtatious, and is male LADIES MAN
Blonde of dubious morals in Slough FLAXEN
EARLY APPEARANCE FOR THESPIAN COUPLE EMBRACING IN ECSTASY MATINEE
Is its rough justice dispensed by leaps and bounds? KANGAROO COURT
Troop out, squeezing first person caught in entrance PORTICO
Small person’s notes about conflict DWARF
Police force clued up, confiscating fifty items from copper? METALWARE
Fruit primarily taken by artist — not Michel TANGELO
Event to raise money, almost sixty-seven cents for toy? RAG DOLL
Imperious military commander stopped by traitor tailing car AUTOCRATIC
BUT THIS PARASITE MAY MAKE US CROSS! TICK
Impressive undertaking for Bobby? ARRESTING
What's done about faulty bomb being discharged DEMOBBED
Acquit former partner on single charge EXONERATE
Single tool? The lot, by the sound of it AWL
Revise commercial involving soldiers AMEND
Proofing agent works, though not initially, under water SEALANT