The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 10 16

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