The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 05 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Fabric in ashes after explosion HESSIAN
Significant relation TELLING
Harpy's head covered by artist with a plant DAHLIA
Motorway madness? See it to believe it? MIRAGE
Possible mafioso’s crime — receiving lashes? SICILIAN
Killing of one donkey after another by island people ASSASSINATION
Leave Henry for large Yank HEAVE
THE SPIRIT OF TRAFALGAR, MAGNA CARTA ARMAGNAC
Shackle on press leg-iron
Penniless family thrown into street SKINT
Score also broadcast as mark made on pitch twenty-two
FOOD IN SOME COUNTRIES THE SAME, OR DIFFERENT HORSEMEAT
Overran Cherokees holding cowboy RANCHER
Respond to provocation, as creature of the deep may do? RISE TO THE BAIT
Punt unsteadily, drinking old whiskey in residential area UPTOWN
Ideal position of hotel in French resort NICHE
Reporter’s dispatched perfume SCENT
Kids can be a problem ISSUE
Off masking pretence with it, a hanger-on? STALACTITE
Asian's heading to the Far East, heart of big country HAITI
Rubbish written by Her Majesty — or King Edward? TATER
Possible range, to some degree AS FAR AS IT GOES
Surprise the French after kick-off STARTLE
Investigate doctor in Togo GO INTO
Small harbour without locks SHAVEN
Nobody put rats out UPSTART
DOUBLE TO HOST A US WRITER TWAIN
THRACIAN COINS MISREPRESENTED AS BELONGING TO ANOTHER TIME ANACHRONISTIC
A disarmingly beautiful work of art? VENUS DE MILO
Residence fitted with old loo — why? HOW COME
Number Ten at sea, this proving disastrous ANAESTHETIST
River where coat hauled up CAM
Husband straying? He might catch this! HERRING
Prepare clergyman for the highest office? PRIME MINISTER
Drinks guzzled by band, performance taking off STRIPTEASE
Control speed rounding bow of naval ship HARNESS
Released gang without charge SET FREE
Ethel regularly chewed the things in her mouth TEETH
CLEAN WITHOUT WATER NEAT
Recent parts more distant, one's out of touch flat-earther
As noise all around here, opt for a change in sound STEREOPHONIC
GOD'S FIRST SON ON JESUS' FIRST MORNING? ADAM
Footwear — a slipper? ice-skate
Music genre, origins in sunny Kingston apparently SKA
Very nice meal. Only 1p SUPER
Older Spanish gentleman touring India SENIOR
Nation grew, say, every second? RWANDA
Trousers with hole repaired, tailor initially wears the trousers! RULES THE ROOST
Beg Parisian in hospital to abandon threat ENTREAT
Doctor overlooking procedures? Oh dear! WHOOPS
Craft used near submarine UNDERSEA
One who observes criminal a wretch WATCHER