The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Current age of US lawman given in play TODAY
FINE-TUNE VARIABLE WAY OF WORKING ON HOLIDAY HONEYMOON
LOVER ONCE WHOLLY TRANSFIXED BY ISLAND OF GREAT BEAUTY EXQUISITE
Principal gateway perhaps ARCH
Excellent advice to papa TIPTOP
Goons hail different ruffians HOOLIGANS
Initially has sort of connection with railway’s sound management HUSBANDRY
THOSE WHO INVESTIGATE REPORT OF TAVERN GHOSTS? INSPECTORS
QUICKLY, SINGER GRABS LARGE WADER ALLEGRETTO
QUALITY OF FINE CHAMPERS, MAYBE, OR PILSENER, AS DRUNK PEARLINESS
NO PLACE FOR SCOTT OR JANIS TO WED JOIN
SAMPLED BOTTLES WITHOUT MEANS, AT FIRST, SUCH AS SCHOONERS? two-masted
SCAVENGER HAS BRIEFLY TO CONTAIN HUNGER HYENA
BLOOMER I COMMITTED ORIGINALLY IN CITY OF STAR-CROSSED LOVERS VERONICA
Island’s importance, short of energy WIGHT
I’m sharp, but would I ever make a fast bowler? HATPIN
PRIME JOURNAL, NOT THE FIRST TREATISE ON ANIMALS BESTIARY
SIX HUGE GUARDS LEFT KEEPING WATCH VIGILANT
Current man on board DRAUGHT
Sudden noise? Exactly BANG
To ravage always wrong, note LAY WASTE
For audience, bring in vessel URN
Bung in favourable publicity PLUG
PORT CONTRIBUTING TO HIGH-RISK OBESITY KOBE
On the front, extremely large, mature tree ELM
BRANCH TO YIELD TO AUDITORS BOUGH
AFTER BATTLE, NAPOLEON EVACUATED A PART OF AUSTRIA VIENNA
Piece of information union contributed to barrier DATUM
Corruption of niece’s MP, for example SPECIMEN
Tough joint of meat for refuge, by the way HARD SHOULDER
Survivor of The Archers broadcast absent as ISIHAC’s beginning SEBASTIAN
BATTLE HAD AROUND AMERICAN, 50, IN POSH HOTEL AUSTERLITZ
LIKE THE DUTCH, PRUDENTLY CHANGING SHILLINGS TO FRANCS WIFELY
Not an intelligent sort of angle? OBTUSE
Did spring article in Paris: fitting! LEAPT
About to tuck into reddish-brown biscuit MACAROON
People’s food likes oddly exposed FOLKS
Assessments of sailors? RATINGS
Hang on here: this is part of a circus act TRAPEZE
Card player’s score put out? PIQUE
GRASP A FIGHTING EUROPEAN BY THE HEAD AWARENESS
CELEBRATED DAY SCHOOL BEING OVER NOTED
A curtain said to be useful AVAIL
Incantation provides chap with raised skill MANTRA
WW2 leader’s some competitor! TITO
Row concerning whose turn it is to catch up TIER
Maybe egoists changing gradually AS TIME GOES BY
IN NASA LAB, A MAD STATE ALABAMA
MARRY SUPPORTER OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION? UNITE
Request one’s placed between wife and husband WISH
Wide outbreak of pied mice disrupted EPIDEMIC
June’s last tango: it hit her badly THIRTIETH
Hanging around, putting in zero housework HOOVERING
Sudden vivid memory of, say, Gordon Champion FLASHBACK
Caught by tree branch, making this? CLIMB
CRUEL AND SENSELESS TO INHIBIT WHAT BEES DO INHUMANE