The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Mine sounds like one of two prime ministers PIT
Figure out number leaving hell INFER
Irritable and childishly ill-behaved, destroying book RATTY
Prompt to include a rest REMAINDER
SOURCE OF POWER OF FAMILY GROUPS, MOSTLY CONSERVATIVE GENERATOR
GUIDANCE ENGINEERS ARE GIVEN IN CLARITY OF SPEECH DIRECTION
ONE VERY IMPORTANT OBSTACLE FOR SKIERS MOGUL
Herb jelly covering slices of bread GROUNDSEL
Suffering nurse left in high dudgeon RESENTFUL
Belonging to those people in that place, we hear THEIR
Reminiscent of benefit swallowed up by accommodation charge REDOLENT
Old man or woman, one living abroad EXPAT
Mutating algae form plants large enough to see MEGAFLORA
Can I get round Exchange Rate Mechanism limits? TERMINI
GRASS: SOME CAUGHT IN MIDDLE SECTION OF BESOM ESPARTO
I avoid returning during deadly epidemic — it’s not good for me PESSIMIST
SHUT UP ABOUT REGULARLY FULL PRISON SYSTEM GULAG
Skill getting pitta due for distribution APTITUDE
Article sibling briefly used for dissertation THESIS
One can’t know the reason votes aren’t being counted THERES NO TELLING
TURNED PINK AND THEN TURNED INTO SOMETHING DARKER ROSED
Forebear perturbed at first about audible swearer PRECURSOR
Walk unsteadily, initially tumbling over fish-eating mammal TOTTER
Ribbed southern press chief after meal TEASED
Colliery with tons for power — this carries a modest bill COAL TIT
Mind corn regularly vanishing during scatter? Here’s the answer SCARECROW
Long to be presented in court — it’s the prestige! CACHET
ALWAYS NOTE EXTREMELY WIDE FEMALE everywhen
Sly, trendy man with evidence of debts INSIDIOUS
GENDERLESS TERM THE IRISH MUST ABANDON TO SOME EXTENT THEIR
Experienced a French river UNDERWENT
Trouble at airline among other things INTER ALIA
Trainee officer’s notice in church pamphlet, ultimately CADET
Not out and batting before wickets? INDOORS
Company invested in mine that’s a feature of Honiton? PICOT
Raucous number’s the finale of “Company” NOISY
Container for wine? SACK
AIM TO CAPTURE RIVER CREATURE FROM ASIA GORAL
Quietly relax about programme finally arranged for recording? PRESET
Decorate cricket team getting in key runs ENGARLAND
Old bloke in New York, a nonentity NOBODY
Random mud remains in unseasonably warm spell INDIAN SUMMER
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON OFFER GAME COURSE NEWMARKET
AMUSING OR SILLY FOOL IGNORAMUS
Sailor, I would add, has turned up fish SPRAT
Container in which egg is sent back TIN
Cockney’s mate in Dresden, for example? CHINA
That woman will fail at first: what a shock! BOMBSHELL
A sad teen wandering round university, sickened NAUSEATED
Gaoled frequently, I am free finally at the last moment IN THE NICK OF TIME
BIG GROWTH IN NAVAL ARCHITECTURE LARCH
Representatives of folk making parts of wheels? SPOKESPEOPLE
Finance head of French and German FUND
One who boxes up gutted porgy fish GUPPY