The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 02 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Drink beginning to befuddle Dame Edna BEVERAGE
Edges into study, bright red CRIMSON
Throw rest out, returning most important fisherman’s trap LOBSTER POT
Amount of writing covering European leader’s ancestry LINEAGE
One impaled on terrible horn — its? RHINO
Intelligence steward deployed having worked in S African region WITWATERSRAND
Compete to block drunkard in Russian council SOVIET
Avoid Santa Fe Trail city DODGE
Maintain right for union leader to perform PERPETRATE
London statue painful to put back EROS
Crews have no head for heights EIGHTS
Charge for carrying horse resting in shade TONNAGE
Mimic provided with Italian wine, possibly, before meal APERITIF
Board work harmoniously GET ON
Dandy clutching large bomb FLOP
AUTHORISE RETIRED MILITARY ENGINEERS TO LOCK UP PRISONER EMPOWER
UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC, A TIMES SUBSCRIBER, PERHAPS? READER
Fit in curve round lake BLEND
Case in which canon takes formal wear LAWSUIT
MATURE PERSONS A POLICE OFFICER HAS ARRESTED IN THE LAST MONTH ADULTS
Old man developed seaside land for social venue PALAIS DE DANSE
Study used by English prime minister in the past EDEN
EXECUTIVE AREA IN FEEDING-PLACE FINALLY IN REGULAR USE MANAGERIAL
An achievement, having units of poetry recited FEAT
Persevering, even if difficult terrain THOROUGHGOING
Society role played by an austere old Greek SPARTAN
Fine-tune first of devices used in a fair ADJUST
Section of, say, people in street SEGMENT
Large vessel initially unpopular with sailors URN
With power thrust forward and fall precipitously PLUNGE
Edged forward, with hooter? NOSED
Crazy food for squirrel NUTS
Popular, Castro, but no Christian INFIDEL
A big blow when visitor rejects hallucinatory drug GUST
No puritan, keen on American women? broad-minded
Profit from one number by country-and-western singer CASH IN
Italian fellow’s extremely cool sound reproduction CLAUDIO
Instrument from east associated with this country UKE
Quickly grabbing uniform for opera FAUST
Release a French set finally missing end of prep UNCLASP
A little European larva TADPOLE
Things people are going to say? GOODBYES
Fantastic, one taking pledge — an older relative! great-uncle
Players sit: boos break out OBOISTS
A graduate with a research room in the Birmingham area? ALABAMA
Self-educator executed turn with American car AUTODIDACT
He may have a hissy fit — look! GANDER
Malign ward supervisor entertaining at home SINISTER
Cultural traits unexpectedly shown by current clubs ARTISTIC
Curios thus gathering round maestro? VIRTUOSO
President to refuse to allow a Japanese art form IKEBANA
Person consulted appearing uninterested in listening SOUNDING BOARD
Scot left during talk with, say, another Scot? GLASWEGIAN
I obliged Ben to arrange feature of hotel room GIDEON BIBLE