The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 10 15

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