The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 07 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Damage every article one puts on? You can’t insure against that WEAR AND TEAR
The thinking animal? RUMINANT
Singular speech? Not half SLANG
Declining to scrap scripture period DECADE
Portion of salary earned for a time YEAR
A few deliveries arrived, crushed OVERCAME
Soon member of clergy’s heading off ANON
One — a halfwit — regularly seen in services canteen NAAFI
In fashion house see foreign paper PRAVDA
Trace small American coin SCENT
Problem seeing pet carrying a little weight around CATARACT
Polite figures from Ancient Rome CIVIL
A bad actor with Oscar from South American city OMAHA
Appeal of article on timeless reform movement CHARISMA
Motorist association swindle taking in old forest dweller RACCOON
Proverb influencing wife to leave SAYING
Appearance in county’s principal city CAIRO
Very unhappy about closing church that’s coming to life HATCHING
Restrictions in place to bar one song CHANSON
Writer got a new name in regular form PENTAGON
Stolen wife or other felony put right HELEN OF TROY
Society concerned with G & S arias? SONGS
Caller from the Mail after a devilish feature POST HORN
Copy, to appreciate, resembling our close relatives? APELIKE
Leave Great Britain say for somewhere tropical DESERT ISLAND
Be punished, with mistake in record of earnings PAYSLIP
Riot: incident that could lead to ban INTERDICTION
Silver ring found on pine in the distant past LONG AGO
Being out to lunch isn’t any stranger after one INSANITY
Went over meeting of two people to finalise Mary Poppins? TRAVERSED
Fanatic going after primate’s bit of food MONKEY NUT
Product of the sea becomes ready to drink? ISINGLASS
Some cop, corrupt, is set up COMPOSE
Unstylish prop, dreadfully hard to find? IN SHORT SUPPLY
Carol, crossing Scottish river, is going nowhere STAYING
Base defeat for swimmer SEA TROUT
One going to take axe for execution LEAVER
As conductor is, hearing principal of cellos going wrong IN CHARGE
Eventually featured by news magazine IN TIME
Surgeon’s brief ban VET
Had a disaster, trimming mushroom BLEW IT
Muriel, maybe, with advert for engine part SPARK PLUG
I throw in jug PITCHER
JOURNALIST WITH JAPANESE MONEY RETURNED IN CARRIAGE HACKNEY
In which athletes find something to pass round HAT
One that shines as member of large Kent family? SEQUIN
Stop remarking on very short dress? SHIFT
Run past, wild and free? UNSTRAP
Panorama is a TV broadcast VISTA
Good present, an ornamental frill GOFFER
VAIN PERSON IN A HEAP AFTER PE PEACOCK
Greek feature partially fills up my loft when returned OLYMPUS
Object when nothing put in glass of beer? POINT