The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 01 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Where strikers are lined up to fight after game MATCHBOX
Try nut and bolt to secure area ENDEAVOUR
Some delightfully rich little poem LYRIC
Take a look into a large juvenile compound ALKALOID
In which the beast of Siberia is caught? TAIGA
Master divisor, ignoring two quarters DOMINATOR
Strongly desire extravagant praise ASPIRE
Country run — nothing taken with huge enthusiasm ROMANIA
Fancy wife goes with that man WHIM
Good girl that can hold her drink GLASS
Armstrong’s heard of what prayers do KNEEL
Away side at Old Trafford OFF
Current parliament returns early work ILIAD
Cut theatre for men only STAG
Disastrously dropped litre drinks in school COLLAPSED
Fighter once assembled eastern troops METEOR
Fool jolly officer DOLT
Obscure country’s losing a contest finally in court INDISTINCT
Poles in Brussels start to examine result ENSUE
Republic disperses beatniks pursuing sawn-off gun UZBEKISTAN
Resorts employing treatment, having nothing for drug at intervals SPASMODICALLY
Skirt round old temple displaying measure of power KILOWATT
Stars dealing with a disease hooked by drugs GREAT BEAR
Still, one that’s never been authenticated YETI
This author’s taking in singular theory ISM
Three views about to be one SEE EYE TO EYE
Toy with no head found in sack RIFLE
Unpleasant, and very cold, outside King’s Head ICKY
Stick in part of mouth GUM
Screen producer’s turkey chasing small donkey SMOKE BOMB
Current producer withdraws a good deal in style DYNAMO
Children’s theatre? PLAYHOUSE
In place of holiday, English cleaner in criminal court! COTE DAZUR
Headgear thrown at first in mud MITRE
Mark time, and succeed holding area TWAIN
Give up introducing complex rating scale CENTIGRADE
Church employee right on the edge VERGER
Computer player is more spirited GAMER
State banks are failing NEBRASKA
Sort of red spy man shortly arrests MAGENTA
Might war prisoner and monarch meet? POWER
Cruisers might lie along this front, playing cards PROMENADE DECK
Small fib about some number that’s marked on the road WHITE LINE
Shy victim I disbelieved in part TIMID
Reproved, going after golden flower ORCHID
Put down “Time to pay membership fee” SUBDUE
Poster to position shortly over a road PLACARD
Greeting husband, unwell HAILING
Criminal trio elected — would have failed this test? LIE DETECTOR
Travel using free energy RIDE
Turning, lecturer is to indicate agreement NOD
As was Molly Brown, tanning in bleak sun UNSINKABLE
Like grass family doctor brought in, it’s negotiable ASKING PRICE
Admire the great man, or horsewhip viciously? hero-worship
Speaker’s fully absorbed, stuck into paper WRAPPED
Small room with first musician CELLIST