The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Drunk beginning to braise game BLOTTO
Mean woman in bad temper, blowing top? AVERAGE
Animal bound to go after some chips ANTELOPE
Winter figure, small currently, lots having been cut SNOWMAN
Police assistant has possible cold case to pursue SNIFFER DOG
Happen to arrive at route through mountains COME TO PASS
Caterpillar turning an age to undergo rapid development BURGEON
High flyer? HUMMINGBIRD
Take a dekko — and see all right LOOK
AT LEAST A DOZEN DELIVERIES, STOLEN OR MISSED OVERSHOT
Current fashion? POWER DRESSING
Dye covering half of hair in helmet TIN HAT
Unusually hot steam starts to ruin this temperature regulator THERMOSTAT
Mischievous like Charlie, disrupting mass meeting RASCALLY
Disadvantage the Spanish suffered originally LOSS
Partial duplication of travel document is concerning vis-a-vis
Tone down a painting technique TEMPERA
Answer recognised when heard again ANEW
Clumsy writer held up by computer technology INEPT
Worked in garden before private dance HOEDOWN
Company absorbing revolutionary statement of belief CREDO
PURPOSELESS COMMERCIAL BREAK ADRIFT
Ornamental bobble a couple of dogs required POMPOM
Unusual urge to put iron back inside safe place REFUGE
Charlie and I get a rest arranged — we’re puffed! CIGARETTES
Beam that’s almost three feet round RAY
Have problems navigating on your bike! GET LOST
Playground amenity was set up by diocese SEESAW
Fishy character suppressing yen to attempt scam TRY IT ON
Poorly made glove has split down the middle GO HALVES
Instrument of torture little Tom’s gang used THUMBSCREW
Coppers accepting an act of contrition PENANCE
Loyalty for example accepted by coalition ALLEGIANCE
Man turned up, crossing a defensive ditch MOAT
Board amidships with this? OAR
You will quaintly call out YELL
Cap soldiers had at Kitchener’s offensive, initially? SHAKO
European city is area under pressure PISA
Informal jumper: knitter’s first piece ROOK
Predatory mammal some go on about? MONGOOSE
Pseudoscientific movement to interpolate blunders TELEPORTATION
Comparatively mean returns in restructured insurance SNIDER
Labrador, say, starts to gobble grub outside peacekeepers’ party? GUNDOG
A teacher receiving US vocalist in Oxon town ABINGDON
This person talks a long time: flipping endlessly GASBAG
Skill of old wife employed in section of media PROWESS
Asian joke involving a retired nurse once JAPANESE
Appropriate opening of zoo with Mr Durrell, a writer FITZGERALD
Some of them market a 19th-century novel EMMA
Female rider that jockeys avidly goad LADY GODIVA
TEXTURE OF FABRIC YOU AND I HAVE SPOKEN OF WEAVE
Grounded because of dodgy heart down-to-earth
Bird like this turned up by quarry OSPREY
Noble, like the News at Ten broadcast? KNIGHTLY