The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 08 31

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