The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 10 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
At first, bearings are seized tightly enough. Pour oil on BASTE
Original shell of confectionery recreated in sugary coating ROYAL ICING
What you get up to in the way of tweeting DAWN CHORUS
Part of Burbank city URBAN
Crowd in Fleet Street? PRESS
Fear losing fine musical ability EAR
Cruel person beheaded river creature OTTER
Party leaders in politics expect information DOPE
Item is piano tune PAIR
Threatening to have party for graduate suffering grief DOLEFUL
Herd straying and straying? Don't follow it RED HERRING
Stop last of dodgy group of settlers COLONY
6 ceding power left transport hub AIRPORT
Usual trick, hiding ring and military medal COMMON
Line chest for a bit of fun LARK
Something that swoops near the ground, head right back OWL
Servant, giving one away, cracked MAD
Varnish nearly all fine material? Question stopping short LACQUER
Is most of gift in seedy venue related to handouts? DISTRIBUTIVE
Brand of motor ending in remote display area MARQUEE
Upset record number entering target country MONGOLIA
Unruly old boy upset superstore OBSTREPEROUS
Most of certain area offloading millions of unusual paintings? SURREAL
Southern European story with a moral that might be unconnected SEPARABLE
Hell surrounding Biblical city seen by an austere religious follower PURITAN
Healthy as a pampered inmate? IN GOOD NICK
Communiqué given no time in part of military base MESS
Against former old Italian food ANTIPASTO
Kitchen device to ruin plumbing fitment DISHWASHER
I creep about, going after each listening device EARPIECE
Fine supplier of puzzles, overlooking first one cheating FIDDLER
Only just defeat star seed PIP
Crumbling Gothic remnant — it's something of an attraction MAGNETIC NORTH
Wild eglantine is far from lovely INELEGANT
Note cut lines — join again? REMARRY
Representation to go up — way to attract Liberal SCALE MODEL
Managed to amuse oneself cutting board that’s not fixed TRANSPORTABLE
Son got out of enormous bath VAT
United Nations is working in simultaneous action UNISON
Untruth I found in key book FIB
Admiral’s daughter pursued by libertine DRAKE
A top mark ALPHA
Nothing quartet recalled about old instrument VIOLIN
Strange being away from work with strike OFFBEAT
Marine marker left by second person returning after start of month life-buoy
Brute grabbing queen’s bosom BREAST
Strange story about the end of expensive seafood OYSTER
Hunter perhaps reset gin, with transient opportunity for observation WATCHING BRIEF
Trying to prevent train sets being laid out wrongly RESISTANT
One guards small number of competitors SENTRY
Exciting about Conservative (not Republican) taking a broad view ECLECTIC
Raise stove intended, we hear, for a new layout REARRANGEMENT
Former partner has to pretend with lady, heartless indeed EXACTLY
Playing piece has all the actors leave gutted CASTLE