The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2017 12 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Toil Bert recollected, producing book LIBRETTO
Avoid parking on end of field — a village feature, perhaps DUCKPOND
VERY SIMPLE THING FOR BIRD TO CATCH WORMS, ULTIMATELY PROTIST
BOTTOM EDGE OF BAT HIT, CAUGHT TRAPPED
Facility used by skater in Kiev? RINK
Staff held up by two men, one from Skopje, perhaps MACEDONIAN
Hard to invest in bank for legislative assembly CHAMBER
Bone problem besetting winger STERNUM
Progressive at first, stay moderate PRESIDE
Close-harmony singing in US composer’s dance BARBERSHOP
Cake English girl left unfinished ECLAIR
Florid style initially rousing old clown ROCOCO
CONCENTRATION OF TURBINES TURN A LONG WAY, MILES WIND FARM
Study origins of Georgian and Latin American dance CONGA
Hairstyle designed to accommodate the workers? BEEHIVE
Tree-lined street, a meeting-place AVENUE
Thin British film director LEAN
Like the gods, lacking time to be debauched IMMORAL
Mushroom fine in the midst of evening ENOKI
Uncertainty created by American writers in Home Counties SUSPENSE
Item of cricketing equipment miscreants sometimes jump? BAIL
Great Britain initially led astray with something that's bizarre! THE MIND BOGGLES
In brief, total out after strike action BATTLE OF BRITAIN
V — a sign that’s rude in vacuous affront AGAINST
Bid already made for a living DAILY BREAD
PUTTING ON AIRS, LIKE MOTHER SUPERVISING SISTERS? SUPERIOR
Argument involving knight in decayed building? run-in
Trace accommodating auberge in France, perhaps? REPUBLIC
DEJECTED, POST-EXORCISM? SPIRITLESS
ISLAND PLACED TO THE WEST HAS OVERLY EXCITED STATE TASMANIA
PATIENT INVESTIGATION CASE
Great queen backing formula RECIPE
REINTERPRETATION OF ANGLICANISM HERE IN THE WORDS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, SAY? AMERICAN ENGLISH
BAG GRIPPING ROLE ON AMERICAN MOVIE SPARTACUS
Aircraft operator, one involved in conspiracy PILOT
Plant, one breaking some land up ERICA
During excavation, opening for Oxford blue INDIGO
Take longer than expected with regard to marathon, say OVERRUN
Composure needed — lack of power in broken wings? UNFLAPPABILITY
Reason ecclesiastical leader in primate is the chosen one APPOINTEE
Murmur about this Latin style of punk MOHICAN
Tribesmen politician encountered in islands IMPI
Crucial member of dorm, one typing email? KEYBOARDER
JAPANESE ENTERTAINER IN BONDAGE IS HANDMAIDEN GEISHA
Aquatic bird endlessly climbing floating mass of ice BERG
Completely throwing HRH — too ugly! THOROUGHLY
COLUMN I BANDAGED? PILASTER
LITTLE BIRD OSCAR LEFT IN DAMP OWLET
Quality arousing sorrow has power over Dumas character PATHOS
WASHERS THE WRONG WAY ROUND IN GUN pom-pom
Real net unexpectedly lasting for ever ETERNAL
I DOUBT DECAYING HOUSES BEGINNING TO CRUMBLE SCEPTIC