The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 05 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Thus shortens said — to avoid these dangers? REEFS
Son tries gardening tool SHEARS
Judge taking in old writer almost makes a bloomer JONQUIL
AFFECTEDLY SING END OF WITTY POEM BY POUND YODEL
Put back part of wall on Kentish hill KNOLL
I came unstuck in voting that’s controversial POLEMICAL
Leads in The Rivals can be performed — easily managed TRACTABLE
Put up bird outside a native village KRAAL
Standard direction to grammar students PARSE
Liberal judge restyled Banjul a capital LJUBLJANA
Engineer ran good railroad DRAGOON
Crazed singer swallowing unknown medical item SYRINGE
Card-sharpers returning from the Holy Land? PALMERS
A BIT OF A FIGHT SCRAP
A girl’s in love, madly, with new creations ORIGINALS
Sailor makes difficult tack in a vessel JACK TAR
Student hopes to get room changed SOPHOMORE
A naturalist primarily twitches for larks ANTICS
A song about a cur tangled in a monkey-puzzle ARAUCARIA
The very best peach biscuit CREAM CRACKER
A sound defence aiding nightwatchman? BURGLAR ALARM
Novelist, craft type MASON
Phone about broken lutes ( ____ in their repair?) RESULTING
To step backwards in part of shoe TOECAP
Help close a hotel in the country LEND A HAND
Cautious statement fellow had withdrawn for example HEDGE
Time to embrace ruffian THUG
Julius Caesar’s ultimate loss life-blood
No agent misrepresented cargo capacity TONNAGE
Sharp American spies returned to protect detectives ACIDIC
Result of getting teeth stuck into Hawthorn, perhaps SAWDUST
Visited by Puck in twenty minutes? ANTIPODES
Does it, say, intimidate yachting visitors? COWES
Blunder as US hospital department shortened radius ERR
Over a pint needed to get engineer tiddly LITRE
Where master is involved in craze of living off the land farm-stead
CAPITAL IS IN ORDER IN TOY-MAKING TOKYO
Avoid old magistrate after pocketing diamonds DODGE
Five enter in water off 9, or in Queer Street INSOLVENT
Exercise that Rex expects back in this EXERT
Craft sure to be hired for remote islands OUTER HEBRIDES
Grand to do nothing but mend broken windows GLAZE
Conversation arising in Greek/Latin TALK
Put back flag, make speech and vanish EVAPORATE
There’s tons in cigars that’s bad for the stomach GASTRIC
Disturb order of words for its antonym UPSET
Playing lute etc in Cos? LETTUCE
New part exchange arrangement in Belgium ANTWERP
SOME MEMORY OF SCOTTISH GARMENT BEARING JAPANESE SASH KILOBIT
Loud workmen I’d recast in radio play UNDER MILK WOOD
He supplies daily intelligence on the Scottish factor NEWSAGENT
'May there be no ____ of farewell' (Tennyson) SADNESS
The Hamlet thing being one of them PLAYS
Biting cereal noisily WRY
Maybe see about film cuts of the black-out ECLIPSE
STONE DEAD, HIS FOES PERSEUS