The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 03 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
General place to study poems cut by a line UNIVERSAL
Rancid meat, a smaller piece thereof OFFCUT
Slight pains: sore bum ASPERSION
Idiot grabbing first of poisonous snakes ASPS
Question on puzzles providing entertainment FLOORSHOW
Not giving away shilling in commercial areas HOARDINGS
Maybe rubber tree on which English females perched EFFACER
Soon desert old lover INAMORATO
With year out, struggling player's form drops PEARL
Conservative pinching man’s idea THEORY
Hammers backing you to become England football manager RAMSEY
Design ready with a pattern of lines RAYED
Try air shot: you don’t often see that! RARITY
Like the Blues song set to succeed ON THE RIGHT TRACK
Spring to one's feet, in case of arm being fat well-upholstered
Card player leaving feast cut turkey FLOP
Person who drags loom TOWER
Husband following Women’s Institute’s fancy WISH
Pained expression when cutting very short ticket VOUCHER
One or two, for example, less feeling NUMBER
Let water out of both taps spread in Texas, say RANCH
Frantic person doing marketing? HYPER
A paper, it’s said, that may get someone’s blessing? ATISHOO
Family broadcaster's screening with artist KANDINSKY
In flipping list, police showing flasher in road INDICATOR
WOBBLE FROM PERSON SUMMING UP? TOTTER
Endow with another look up or down? REPAPER
Drive round with zero speed OOMPH
Maybe like the living dead in a ring, with axes not very sharp OXYMORONIC
A LOT OF MONEY UNDERSTANDABLY CAN HELP AT FIRST MUCH
Converted triremes: most jolly! MERRIEST
VAN TO DELIVER GREENER SORT OF PETROL lead-free
Politician I call, after uniform for referee’s job UMPIRING
President's vow in ceremony for everyone POMPIDOU
One who's near water abroad saving lives MISER
Tango's rejected by toy boy EDDY
Rough, jovial husband appearing late EARTHY
Binge over, guy must purge insides ORGY
BOY IS GOOD ARTIST AND BAD ACTOR GRAHAM
The writer's using short pens for statement TESTIMONY
FIDDLESTICK THAT IS USED BY ROCK STAR BOWIE
Not in favour of August, on reflection, in Caribbean location ANTIGUA
THEY SUFFER INFORMAL AND FORMAL ATTIRE CASUALTIES
Mavis lost time with her fooling around THROSTLE
Defence from fighter boxing in the same place ALIBI
Grass weeding tool picked up? Oh well heigh-ho
Malicious person sticking to soft drinks in bar CATTY
Might war prisoner, perhaps, when meeting the queen? POWER
Substantially increase level — put cork back, partially OCTUPLE
A huge amount of sticky stuff: precious commodity, mostly GOOGOL
TWO XVS IN NEED OF A DRINK WITH SECONDS TO GO THIRTY
Middle-Easterner, most sickly looking, at home with Scotsman? PALESTINIAN
ENVY FESTIVE, EXOTIC FIGURE seventy-five
Foreign ruler hosts small function for composer ROSSINI
INTENTION TO KEEP SOUTH WEST AFLOAT ASWIM
Switch positions occasionally ON AND OFF