The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 10 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Company doubled up on a drinking powder COCOA
Flamboyant old Law Lord entertains LOUD
Problem with male film director HITCHCOCK
Item for traveller knocking on mansion walls HOLDALL
Thieving — like ET? light-fingered
I put in fuse for trooper, say? SOLDIER
Got on vessel in eastern sea EMBARKED
Christian book favouring giving up almost everything PROCESSIONAL
Frantic rub, action that's designed to keep things warm INCUBATOR
New wig and thong, kinky bedroom gear NIGHTGOWN
Fiddle one misplaced? There it is! VOILA
Shambles — first meal for Rover? DOGS BREAKFAST
Fill pot, it's suggested? TOP UP
Reduce by cooking in two months DECOCT
Old country entertained by bagpipers I assembled PERSIA
Invalid with a nature that's sickly? VALETUDINARIAN
Books briefly on fire LIT
Buddy has circuit to set up PAL
Demonstrate putting away hot alcoholic drink MARC
What may qualify school to provide set of rules GRAMMAR
Get promoted in a post broadcasting ASCEND
Flatter, or fairly flat? BLANDISH
Run including a fortune-telling card TAROT
Sordid party game BASEBALL
Greek festival inspires king – it’s something in the atmosphere ARGON
Indeed in prison, a youth NAY
Passage south across the Atlantic SINUS
They could hack off Conservative Brexiteers CLEAVERS
By the sound of it, giant close TIGHTEN
Gulping oxygen, tired out journalist EDITOR
Use a nosebag to scoff heartily? EAT LIKE A HORSE
Piano, say, for club PUTTER
Leave the neighbouring housing compound ETHENE
A little weight UNESCO's thrown about OUNCES
Thin item also broad, power in it TOOTHPICK
Fish — one snoozing? KIPPER
Investigator on the booze REPORTER
Brief verse in French mostly useless ENVOI
Prickly Scandinavian hero content to leave Norway THORNY
Didn't like touring Croatia's capital, back in Split DETACH
Shabby stuff that may be returned unaltered TAT
Level on a building plot, we hear? STOREY
Front of chest in great pain, so could be this? angina pectoris
Trained to run race, his performance is telling RACONTEUR
Heavy drinks bottles heading for tavern ROTUND
Musical style it's rude to sing BLUEGRASS
The cloth sample on skimpy garments MINISTRY
View short camera shot, in which a lot is crooked? CRIME WAVE
As pro in no time injured, taking someone off IMPERSONATION
Bird beginning to fly very short distance FINCH
Bird — star breed in trouble REDBREAST
Good girl we're told deciding it's an unfair obstacle GLASS CEILING