The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 03 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
STARTER OF DUCK BECOMING DUCK AND EGG OVOID
Daughter, passionate, celebrated nude DAVID
He’d put out east from the Caymans, somehow? YACHTSMAN
Shot below joint ELBOW
Promise fair puzzle word-square
Stuff essential for giving or getting GORGE
PROGNOSIS MEG PUT ABOUT, BEING SPREADER OF RUMOURS GOSSIPMONGER
Character left in support FLAVOUR
Be absorbed in thought about island's waste MISUSE
Benefit that people must carry over MAIDEN
Have a go at someone’s short cut SNIP
MONEY DRAWN IN BY RAKE, AS STANDARD PROCEDURE ROUTINE
OPPOSED TO GOLF, ON BALANCE, BEING ARRANGED AGAIN RESTAGING
Adore getting hold of a good herb LOVAGE
One expecting the right to wear second medal mother-to-be
How farmer let off weapon flame-thrower
Declined to pot, for example, first and second reds LEFTISTS
Beams, having last of bread-and-butter pudding RAFTERS
Lockkeeper to become a leading musician? HEADBAND
Ran slowly in what’s deceptive light TRICKLED
Trunk and tangled roots TORSO
Time to stop a curiously old-fashioned etching technique AQUATINT
Finally blow into warm club providing cosy environment WOMB
This could be M’s part? Yes SPYMASTER
Fur coat owner’s embarrassed admission? ERMINE
Attack pacifist leading appeal for peace COSH
POWERFUL DRUG: ONE TAKEN WITH EXPRESSION OF DOUBT AFTER OPERATION OPIUM
Rotter's rotten gag about a deb coming out A BAD EGG
Nothing, within reason, eclipsing first of these, apparently OSTENSIBLY
Ringleader taking in very English sleuth INVESTIGATOR
Article female related unaltered AS IS
Gift: story together with religious books TALENT
AT SEA IN A LAUNCH AFLOAT
Complete circuit, or segment? ORBIT
They need walk-on parts for their sketches pavement artists
AFRICANS, A WELSHMAN, AND SOME SCOTS? IVORIANS
Strong second row STIFF
Irish being buried in vault abroad is unreal VIRTUAL
Sound coming from piano is extraordinary NOISE
BLOOMER AS DRUG AGENT SENDS OUT MISSING DRUG NARCISSUS
Army officers moved quickly leaving retail outlet GENERAL STORE
Unacceptable idea I dismissed NOT ON
Fish from tin, roughly prepared sandwiches RED SNAPPER
DETERMINED TO ATTACK SET UPON
Cold and unemotional type in charge, diver recalled ICEBERG
Courage of owner finally entering flat that's been turned over NERVE
Pack up stuff for temporary abode CRASH PAD
Grass box breaking toe badly ESPARTO
Fall for American, not half: love his car! AUTO
Even pieces of carpet I lay so as to fit APTLY
OLD PEASANT TO REAR WOODLAND CREATURE HIND
Desperate option many tars ponder ultimately? ANY PORT IN A STORM
Noisy pigeon set about quiet old Hollywood actor COOPER
Refusal to lift tax for working ON DUTY