The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 02 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
LONGING TO THUMB A LIFT IN PART OF LONDON? ITCH
WORK ON IT INEPTLY FOR CHOICE OPTION
Court order Bury police overturned on time INTERDICT
DO LEAST WELL: STOP TAKING MALT EXTRACT CONTAINING SULPHUR COME OFF WORST
Search thoroughly for weapon RIFLE
Exclamation when probing handwriting — blooming shopkeeper! FLORIST
A scam to snaffle farmer’s last fruit from tree ACORN
Way a person goes about with first bit of Southend rock SANDSTONE
Argue about Northern Line, one not seen in the brightest light MOONLIT
Material for gloves taken to court by English SUEDE
Risk needing a sling? CHANCE ONES ARM
Church abandons whim to create popular resort CAPRI
A type of grain I ditched in shock AMAZE
Nothing overlooked in keeping yarn STRING
Bound to return to US city for the Spanish food PAELLA
Knight dined in airport in sumptuous manner ORNATELY
Clue “Seascape” with an anagram? It’s a potential way out ESCAPE CLAUSE
Everyone’s in debt keeping lab working: it’s permitted ALLOWABLE
Nit-picking fellow going into favourite lines PEDANTRY
Jumper mostly sported at entrance to tyre plant FLEAWORT
Elated over German worker supporting former partner EXUBERANT
Quietly supported by act protecting western water plant PONDWEED
One sent out letters covered in beer APOSTLE
Dainty swimming aid used by the Spanish ELFIN
Country engaged in machinations? CHINA
Prehistoric relic sons wrapped in metallic sheet FOSSIL
Seriously inaccurate stories about artist making free LIBERAL
Those people will collect old record for religious study THEOLOGY
Surprisingly to us, a man spurns a rise in Greece MOUNT PARNASSUS
Sea creatures affected during island’s revolution SCAMPI
Awful aching torment that needle points to MAGNETIC NORTH
Sort of rock cake cooked by elderly wife? GREYWACKE
Tucking into ham, soldiers respond too forcibly OVERREACT
Break assistant initially employed touring the States PAUSE
Good woman accommodating learner with pleasure GLADLY
Rope-maker’s sibling briefly linked with notorious gangster SISAL
IN NEWCASTLE, POPULAR LIAISONS: THEY WERE ONCE DESCRIBED AS NAUGHTY! NINETIES
Big gun given position in Albert Hall BERTHA
Elevated position in Mad Hatter’s prose STRATOSPHERE
HIT COPPER WITH REPEATED FORCE CUFF
Hearty boatman’s beginning to steer towards the wind BLUFF
Liberal introducing novel proposition LEMMA
Someone getting a buzz from their hobby? APIARIST
Can, and reportedly used to, clean in German town WORMWOOD SCRUBS
Deduce no escaping from fire INFER
Rugby club used to be pretty successful at first WASPS
Keeping to oneself, sulk endlessly amidst dreadful rain INSULAR
Design upset person painting flat PLANAR
Family group’s beginning a racket CLANG
A man from the Balkans secures British circus performer ACROBAT
Libyan port’s endless mist absorbed by boy soldier BENGHAZI
Food shop transformed by caste in Leeds DELICATESSEN