The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 08 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
DECREASE IN EXPECTED WIND LEVEL DWINDLE
SALLY READY TO EMBRACE EAST GERMAN RIPOSTE
Protein excess ends in muscle expansion GLUTEN
Provide funds for hunting in retreat BACKTRACKING
Important final pieces of tape disguised how paintwork may be vandalised KEYED
FANCIED SLOGAN FOR SUBVERSIVE REPORTER? IMAGINED
HOMER'S INITIAL APPEARS IN IRRATIONAL LETTER TO GREEKS PHI
MC: I dare say it represented the end of the war ARMISTICE DAY
Some scared lads up a tree ALDER
OLD EUROPEAN TO SING ABOUT GOOD IN HUMANS Cro-magnon
Paint Raymond keeps something for pending tasks in-tray
Coin in large pot COPPER
After the last of chips are almost finished, eat fish SARDINE
Remarkable reason you can’t book a restaurant? NOTABLE
PHYSICIAN IN BOX CARRIED BY MASSIVE ANIMALS HIPPOCRATES
Drunken snob with no taste devours a simple meal BEANS ON TOAST
SWEETENER WHEN WISE MAN LOSES HEAD OVER ROTTEN MEAT ASPARTAME
Planes flying somewhere in Italy NAPLES
Trailer parking right alongside edge of rifle range PREVIEW
DESPERATE NEED TO PUT A BIBLE IN THE POST STARVATION
PLEA FOR SHORT DASH TO PROVIDE MEDICAL HELP ENTREAT
Be, for the most part, extremely ill-disposed and very cross LIVID
PAINTER NEEDING ONE PAPER GETTING ANOTHER ON FIRST EXPRESSIONIST
Changing pants idea is so cool DISPASSIONATE
FORMER KENT PLAYER ALWAYS UP TO CONSERVE ENERGY REEVE
LAUGHING STALIN SET ABOUT MILITARY LEADERS JOCOSE
Comeback from a Republican claiming “fake news” ANSWER
Persistent nuisance lucky to avoid fine IMPORTUNATE
Railway out of extremely pleasant place with canals VENICE
STRANGE TALES ABOUT FIRM THAT ONCE FLAVOURED BEER ALECOST
Show Mal bizarre scientific theory OHMS LAW
Warning: she may lead you astray SIREN
American friend turns up with excellent port DUBAI
DRY SKIN FROM HERE ONE MIGHT TAKE OFF AIRSTRIP
PRODUCED NOTE BEFORE THE SIGNAL TO STOP FATHERED
RUNNER AT LAST CONQUERS KARAKORAM PEAK SKI
ETERNAL FOOL TO ACCEPT POINT BY SETTER? AGELESS
Troublemaker tries, stupidly, to protect gutless rioter STIRRER
KID HAS REPAIRED ONE AFRICAN GARMENT DASHIKI
Mammal's lair covered with rubbish RODENT
Start in earnest to embrace foreign food TARTINE
Writer entering big public competitions OPENS
Better writing from woman husband shunned EDIT
JOURNALISTS IN TEA-SHOP OCCASIONALLY DRINK ESPRESSO
One taking to a certain party, say booze CIDER
Disreputable lawyer, retiring and mostly stern SHYSTER
Horse to follow flawlessly finding way through? PATH
Showing excellent vision, Tokyo won this Olympic bid twenty-twenty
Set to reach maturity, needing to shed weight GROUP
County name from French and German? DEVON
Weird artist associated with opera in China PARANORMAL
Wandering around, detective wears no protective clothing NOMADIC