The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 10 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
El Cid excitedly entertains fighting volunteers in fortress CITADEL
Drama that was painful? Never! NOHOW
Fishing port in distant land — a change from Britain all round PENZANCE
Game personnel in industrial region RUHR
Inclined to be difficult? UPHILL
Legendary princess some feared losing has returned ISOLDE
Losing it in the playground, this instrument? QUADRANT
Not drinking: one should be eighteen? TEETOTAL
Puff for a second PROMO
Put out of home, like granny, over time INDIGNANT
Queen, perhaps, given rose, moved SOVEREIGN
Rowed and yelled, losing head OARED
Rulings used to carry more weight when order reversed FATWAS
Sailors looking to both starboard and port deck POOP
Scent left by the first travellers ROMA
Siren has volume and means to raise it VAMP
Maybe some hope crime can be contained by grand new legal society GRAYS INN
Will perhaps follow the rules of the game, keeping wicket PLAYWRIGHT
Without turning yellow, body going all muscly SINEWY
A female meeting strange male becomes very excited AFLAME
Ancient haunt with nothing left on its roof OLDEN
Animal in stream heading west WOLF
Carry male emblem for the tribe TOTEM
Character in political group falling short PART
Country home given help after setback INDIA
Liberation from vice learned about DELIVERANCE
Leafy herb? The last thing this person has! ENDIVE
Lake by dark sort of rock, in turn a place of execution GOLGOTHA
Have high opinion of some scholar at Eton RATE
Half the side will have drink after critical game DECIDER
Formality of celebrity meeting first couple of children STARCH
Father and son rage SIRE
Nasty inn with dog — I can't drink! GIN AND TONIC
Words of praise in remarks about place on island COMPLIMENTS
When a director admits low-water mark NADIR
Book I completed, performing research BONE UP ON
The ultimate employer endures after swapping two characters around END USER
Manipulative folk with points of view about Russia's leader WANGLERS
Staff of authority to assume in ancient kingdom MACEDON
Pop-up blockers maybe for family film features ADDAMS
Personal maid, one Her Majesty initially ordered AD HOMINEM
At least twenty-one strike OVERSCORE
I’d chain out, going free in this? HOUDINI ACT
Being kind of naive at first, it’s going in a straight line LENITY
Elevated place in lounge mostly occupied by speakers, etc LA PAZ
Special preserve of former Roman emperor, briefly married EXTRA JAM
Sailor securing airmen a large, old-fashioned place in London TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Refrains supporting Chicago team FORBEARS
Alongside ox, rodent looks different next-door
Horse that may be old and funny CHESTNUT
This person plunging into distant river is country worker FARMER
Particular obligations — have no doubt about them CERTAINTIES
Result of gunfire spoiled heroic act, not the first RICOCHET