The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 08 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Certainly dismayed, in part AYE
Time remaining after specialist vacated theatre area STAGE LEFT
Practical joke is quietly disgusting PRANK
Seal domestic encounter finally by a whisker CRABEATER
Swallow fed dry sandwich BUTTY
Long hose: get it caught up in taps knee-socks
Ignited high explosive, showing flexibility LITHE
The man’s Conservative past HISTORY
Force ace to quit game have-a-go
Disorderly nit, impolite to enter uninvited INTRUDE
Loudly sing opinion of unfashionable waistband? BELT OUT
One miraculously raised a sprint briefly after endless idling LAZARUS
Joiner, Pole, taking Thursday off NOR
Drug English star HEROINE
Pointed tool held by smaller criminal LAWLESS
Absorbing nitrogen, censures nasty skin lotion SUNSCREEN
Pledge to block new bus lane is beyond disgusting UNSHOCKABLE
Herb’s ego jarred with Nora OREGANO
See cracks appearing in displays of mutual affection love-ins
Sailor supporting a Liberal place of worship ALTAR
Draws one a plant RAFFLESIA
Increasingly wintry spot forecaster’s mentioned ICIER
Easily overcome reaction of disgust in alternative to Thatcher? SLAUGHTER
An anti-Nazi gathering expels one foreign national TANZANIAN
Starter of cabbage leaves baked in pastry on the way EN ROUTE
Pale woman’s fixing familiar person with interest STAKEHOLDER
Difficulty with speech, failing Turing test? STUTTERING
Huts remodelled like this THUS
An old artilleryman’s casing initially too wide for one EXTRA
Concerned with short Welsh dog going around shopkeeper GROCER
Funny form of censorship GAG
Remover of dirt or carbon with less fat CLEANER
Heard someone leaving Devonian town EXETER
Informally offering Desprez, Ziegfeld exhibits PREZZIE
Peevish complaint from Caucasian changing time to noon WHINE
US news magazine with a profit repeatedly time and again
Recalled fair sound of raven and cuckoo WACKO
Departs with ship full of animals that’s not light DARK
Unexpectedly goes for hikes UPS
One competed in green coat? IVIED
Left-wing Republican editor RED
Fit and well — antismoker at heart SPASM
Trench one often had to drain SAP
Be painfully affected by belt-tightening? FEEL THE PINCH
Tried catching tuna, say, around vessel supplied FURNISHED
Boxing damaged finger of course, primarily coffering
King of Tyre, from memory, greeting heads HIRAM
Eater ’aving bananas (or nuts)? VEGETARIAN
Nervous excitement children are in at bedtime? JIMJAMS
Rubbish collecting for instance in pan ROAST
After a short butcher’s knife with a label on AT A GLANCE
Awesome gas associated with singular manure jaw-dropping
Opera’s premiere mostly gets hammered PETER GRIMES
The solvers no good, I hesitate to say: they won’t get this! YOUNGER