The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 09 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Father left friend PAL
A SORT OF CHURCH EXPERT ACE
RAISE THE RATE TO SCREEN SKY ETHER
Beater caught hunted creature HART
PAPER BAGS OVER OLD SOLDIERS FOOT
CHANNEL SURFING'S PRIMARY FEATURE STRAIT
ONE WHO MAY SNARE YOU WITH RECORD INCLUDING MUSIC ON PIANO ENTRAPPER
Smart current newspaper in US city NIFTY
Badly done now? Oops! Here’s booby prize WOODEN SPOON
Combat sport which often divides neighbours FENCING
Fashionable basin reportedly matching IN SYNC
Heroin regularly taken for a very long time EON
Prayer that gives one a lift PATERNOSTER
Break down piece by Spanish composer FALL APART
Give acclaim, receiving small gesture of welcome HANDCLASP
Ring operator, ringing round and hinting at trouble OMINOUS
Specialised unit of time? Request this in Paris TASK FORCE
Precise sort of knife left cuts STICKLER
Tough on one mum protects RESILIENT
Fruit old and bad rejected OLIVE
Vehicle passes through rock in a line TETRAMETER
Interest rising then lowering keeps home cheap bargain-basement
In station, tape's readily available ON TAP
Belt up one so nervous SHIVERY
Perform the role of accountant, lifted by words of gratitude ACT AS
Churchmen smell a piece of chicken? PARSONS NOSE
NARCOTIC I DUMP AT THE CENTRE, AFTER WORK OPIUM
Picked up hamper for country club BLOC
SHOW ABILITY TO TAKE OFF PARTY FOOD CANAPE
“Heap” and “lot” could be about right for this? PLETHORA
Slip home, by the sound of it GAFFE
Something dotty relative with tablets brought over ELLIPSIS
Staff taking time out — in other words, a possible skive? SICKIE
Short cut from port, once in motion ETON CROP
Literary heiress left capital around PORTIA
Depression in young man broadcast where personal problems are published AGONY COLUMN
See dry rot, unfortunately in naval vessel DESTROYER
Trembling post-coitally, without way to hide emotion PLAY IT COOL
TYPE OF DELIVERY COMPLETED BY MEMBER OVERARM
DOCTOR IN PRIVATE ROOM, A PERSON OF GREAT ENERGY DEMON
Comic-book star rose up magically, holding that lady SUPERHERO
Debussy's opening with E flat, cutting a section DEPARTMENT
STEAL THE SPANISH COIN NICKEL
Unexpectedly encounter a mongrel under ladder RUN ACROSS
Crater roughly enclosing tree CALDERA
NOT GIVING IN, RUINED CASTLE DEFENDS ISLAND INELASTIC
INITIALLY, FEMALE BECOMING HOT AND DRY ATHIRST
Conservative sold headless pack of fish old-school
PLAYING ROLE SUBTLY, ONE MOVES THE MASSES TROLLEYBUS
Stop suffering on the phone WHOA
OFFICIAL WORK CLOTHES FOR PLANT TREFOIL
Sister omitting nothing in part of speech NUN
Criticism which goes over actors’ heads? REPROOF