The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Moving quietly, preparing cell for raver? PADDING
Speak badly of wound one can’t directly see? BACKBITE
Angry mule, for example CROSS
One who kills a couple of donkeys at home? ASSASSIN
Big beast thus disposed of? BISON
Extremely foul tramp’s lost outside ULTRA
Long journey that may encounter a hitch? HIKE
Foreign banker puts a lot of money on old computer POTOMAC
Pierce page with what one is writing with? PINK
Swill round, swallowing only in extremis? That’s grotesque GARGOYLE
To assemble is a fag ROLL UP
Coming to an end of atonement, assuming the lead in reparations EXPIRATION
One may produce milk, haphazardly as I infer FRIESIAN
Capital fellow, the Italian ace! MANILA
SUPPORTING MEMBER MAKING US SMILE BROADLY BEAM
BLOKE DIGESTING BOOKS OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT NATURE? EROTIC
Suck up spicy taste, not liked initially CURRY FAVOUR
Stars constantly yattering about Brazilian port ORION
Weatherproof coat a nosy person talked of? PARKA
Flask makes a come-back RETORT
Round Australia drink and fruit lifted author EMILE ZOLA
Spend a very long time finding way through building? PASSAGE
Sorcery may concern criminal NECROMANCY
How you choose a fabric .. AT WILL
Heard song before in poem ERE
Woman beginning to enjoy article going north ENA
Male newlywed, an islander HEBRIDEAN
Gangster invites in composer briefly for a drink CAPPUCCINO
Make incomprehensible poem after being regularly crazy in the head ENCODE
Love to interrupt endlessly stroppy dancers BOLSHOI
Liable for flat PRONE
Music to make nanny’s companion seriously disturbed? ROCKABILLY
With frequency an old don drifts into sleep LAND OF NOD
Bachelor, fairly flabby, like a cartoon colonel? BLIMPISH
Consumed a bit of pie at Enfield EATEN
Futile, abandoning ship in Merseyside port BOOTLE
Seabird using the front regularly TERN
Religious drama; suggesting calmer one? MIRACLE PLAY
A team only Mancunians originally saw? AXIOM
... no bias, please write with care OPEN MIND
Strange lot, if in thin wrapping TINFOIL
Permission to make tracks? LEAVE
Mass of rock coming from left? TOR
Two features of cricket take too long OVERRUN
Thrashing learner restricted by deficiency FLAILING
This time holding run, coming back exhausted WORN
SUPPLY DAUGHTER WITH ENTERTAINMENT FUND
Box tree, in part TRUNK
SMALL NUMBER WITH SATISFACTORY HIDEAWAY NOOK
Fashionable northern lodging-place INN
Unproductive peer, by the sound of it BARREN
Underground worker arresting a Republican sailor MARINER
Old-fashioned bloke in sheltered inlet COVE
Employees tire first, running banner up this? FLAGSTAFF
Unavailing, nursing sick criminal VILLAIN
X, cold greeting CHI
No science subjects mean breaking into so much laughter FINE ARTS