The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Spectacular number displays formal headgear show-stopper
Mostly courteous hanger-on initially obeying Communist executive POLITBURO
STILL COLD WHEN WEARING HEAVY MATERIAL PLACID
Goods appeal regularly — it’s absolutely true, they say GOSPEL
Sluggish swim with rubbish around TORPID
Court with old office at the front WOO
ISOLATED FELLOW WHO HANDLED SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES? STRANDED
REPOSITORY FOR DAMAGED HARP AND CAPES? SCRAPHEAP
Alcoholic drink not quite right for child TIDDLER
Hugest new dwelling by river that can accommodate visitors GUESTHOUSE
LIKE BIRD OF OLD ON FRUIT TREE PLUMAGED
Bird identified by sinful gent originally in Humberside port HERRING GULL
Property — idiots may keep theirs, at first ASSETS
Oarsman involved in argument? ROWER
Firm is old-fashioned, keeping order mostly DEDICATED
Thin coil finally used in transmitter SLENDER
Bottle — something kept in a cabinet, might you say? PHIAL
Amount of herring from end of harbour tinned CRAN
Meeting with a suggestion as to how police might trap criminal? TRYSTING
Bill cricketer picked up TAB
Scholarly story about the heartless scoundrel LITERATE
Animal minder browbeat a woman’s daughter COWHERD
Pensioner carries it over paved area by house PATIO
Bit of hair giving girl, ten, makeover RINGLET
Irishman knocking over post LIAM
Way sweetheart goes about showing integrity HONESTY
Like prescription and wrong pills coming from mad chemist possibly MISMATCHED
Sea god, fat, yellow and soft, surfacing PROTEUS
Baddie’s heading off to create this? EVIL
Music concert group of countries set up GIGUE
Bowler maybe who gets opener dismissed HAT
Youth leader ahead of time every twelve months YEARLY
Skives in casual wear SLACKS
A ballad gripping wife and son on every occasion ALWAYS
Novelty we set up in northern loch NEWNESS
Renegotiated rent a bit high ultimately for old country building TITHE BARN
Throat gel worked quite slowly LARGHETTO
Publicise young woman’s narrow escape in flight AIR MISS
Call British prime minister going west BLEEP
HIGH TIME TO DISCARD A BLOUSE MIDDY
Young creature over in Cornish river FOAL
Dodgy behaviour with greeting — there may be something fishy here SUSHI
After short time whale is seen in holiday location MINORCA
Fairish new role accepted by board TOLERABLE
Distant agricultural area? 75% of it FAR
Stone circle west of China OPAL
According to radio, precipitation is expected DUE
This writer's rubbish is somewhat wicked IMPISH
Controversial European means to be heard by audience POLEMIC
Diamonds used in specific earrings ICE
Farewell from a girl attached to Brussels? ADIEU
Manager occupying temporary accommodation, desperate man stuck inside INTENDANT
Ruler who lost his head leading fashionable people a dance? CHARLESTON
CHURCH ABOUT TO BE GIVEN SUMS OF CASH FOR FORMAL EVENTS CEREMONIES
Girl, one tailing bird in meadow LETITIA
Company doctor’s crest COMB
A French university in part of London? That’s not welcome UNPOPULAR