The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 05 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Apparatus is correct after eliminating high tension RIG
Wrongly gaoled when one could be in a home? OLD AGE
Gingerbread’s on cabbage salad as a rule for workers PARKINSONS LAW
Dance classes for poet and priest HOPKINS
Second group of girls making treacle MOLASSES
Riding skill is habit that comes with maturity DRESSAGE
PM PUT DOWN BY HOUSE OF LEGISLATURE CHAMBERLAIN
Sell a lot of miserable places in most of the Principality WHOLESALE
Cyclops, perhaps, captured by two Greeks OGRE
ARTISTS TAKEN ABACK BY MALE PAINTER NOTED FOR PORTRAITS SARGENT
Escape, having left before noon LAM
Resident embarrassed, upset about non-mains water supply DWELLER
Formally acknowledged something played entering grave SALUTED
Thanks for each firelighter TAPER
Faced work sitting for a artist OPPOSED
Ankle was broken in a ballet SWAN LAKE
Cold criminal heading off to be a fellow down under COBBER
Picks confectionery treats: second about to go CHOICES
Material used in many longerons NYLON
Number joining party for Africans in US state care MAINTENANCE
Lyric poems in more than one style, devoid of metre ODES
Cook using British fuel BOIL
What was busted in war with power — having a bit of water! DAMP
What some shy writers use, wanting pounds without celebrity PEN NAMES
Extract sulphur out of earth OIL
Snooker ball in plant PINK
Approach a planet without second source of energy AVENUE
Instrument in vessel about to go on fire SACKBUT
Odds? Yes and no EVENS
Haywain, say, seen in the foremost of Constable’s paintings? CART
Having several sides subsequently participating in test TRILATERAL
MADE A DEAL AND EMBRACED, HAVING TAKEN UP LITTLE TIME COMPROMISED
TAKES AWAY FROM SLIPPERY SKIDPAN KIDNAPS
A knight leaving birthplace somewhere in France PROVENCE
Low-cut trousers — fashionable, small and mostly short HIPSTERS
African university given superior temporary accommodation HUTU
Renamed city business qualification lad possesses BOMBAY
Cricketer accumulating runs, a spoilt youngster? BRAT
Approved sellers disposing of five English diamonds ENDORSED
Metal wire LEAD
Boozer liked being heard INN
Players are outside entrance getting rebukes CASTIGATES
Moaned awfully about start of bloating in belly ABDOMEN
Back diversity and change REARRANGE
Conservative, primarily, so must get working for established behaviours CUSTOMS
Really dislike admitting son’s inconsiderate speed HASTE
HORSE HAS CALM EXPRESSION AFTER LOSING ITS TAIL EVENTER
Beautiful female lacking expression AIR
Golf’s abandoned winner’s medal that’s long-established OLD
Encouraging action at end of round in fight bringing out
Roughly what we do as presents are handed out? GIVE OR TAKE
Last one of the tribe to give utterance of surprise EGAD
Refuse a course of action after shock TURN AWAY
Element of clue, one I'd fit in deviously DEFINITION
Attack malevolent little creature that's got rid of black mammal PANGOLIN
Like many a tune coming from evil Hollywood star SINGABLE
What could be nastier component of fat STEARIN