The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 08 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Collar on dogs or catlike mammals RINGTAILS
Giving birth on the farm? — not being serious! KIDDING
Condition backed by more senior cricketer, perhaps FIELDER
Serviceman in receding tide finds protection AEGIS
Hanger-on in French city initially expecting pay back REIMBURSE
Love line and false statement seen in Hardy? OLLIE
Crucial-sounding place for loading and unloading ships QUAY
Memory concerning offertory RECOLLECTION
Member of clergy beheaded for crime ARSON
Reportedly worked flour into dough, as required NEEDED
Affair producing children? ISSUE
One who endures being a carrier of equipment? BEARER
Symbol of rank crack troops held at first SASH
Lying between two rivers, what was that industrial region? RUHR
Senior citizen taken in by soldiers OLDIE
She plays a series of jazz chords for law officers SHERIFFS
One's mad having lost this cleaning cloth RAG
LINES BY ENGLISH NOVELIST IDENTIFYING VEGETATION GREENERY
At sea stop son boarding a vessel AVAST
Almost entirely lecherous American writer RAND
A model unexpectedly receiving right noble rank EARLDOM
Barge capsized shown in national emblem LEEK
Auntie coming back just the same? BEEB
With short sudden movement snake gets rodent JERBOA
Spider-Man's inner skin layer DERMA
Instruction to supply goods called for by the Speaker? ORDER
Deer that transformed stops car in dramatic event COUP DE THEATRE
Cook disturbed by a noisy quarrel FRAY
Dad’s Army cast entertaining English illusions DAYDREAMS
Decline of French people of similar age DEGENERATION
Noblewoman’s daughter beginning to understand board game DUCHESS
Breaks rest to develop a mode of swimming BREASTSTROKE
Son left in club to speak explosively SPLUTTER
Petersham's much-admired film? GREATCOAT
Going to ground, getting beating HIDING
Transparency islander lent freely lantern slide
Worthless person, erstwhile Prime Minister, shows zest LEMON PEEL
Greek character concealing source of this disgrace STIGMA
Horse served in Bordeaux perhaps causing belly-ache WHINE
Type of seabird others rejected SKUA
Plant in estate well clear of borders GROUNDSEL
Traitor in Paris who attracts support QUISLING
Caucasian soldiers initially installed in Irish islands ARMENIAN
Port not vintage — enjoy last of Semillon NEW HAVEN
Youth in the quarter for Valentine's Day? FOURTEENTH
Stench terrible with decay in New York City SCHENECTADY
What's unimportant as compared with former currency? beside the mark
Stay in order to see well-camouflaged creature STICK INSECT
Byron's end portrayed in melancholy lament MONODY
One scorer surprisingly able, another satisfactory BELA BARTOK
Almighty muddle in poem not finally relevant OMNIPOTENT
Southern Greek character raised total SUM
Second blast outside is very close BOSOM
Group for example, east European, appearing in Greek city THE BEE GEES