The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 03

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Podginess of English male with good French cape EMBONPOINT
Work with miners cutting top of oak tree LABURNUM
An entrance in stone AGATE
Entice police chief initially developing freedom in lines POETIC LICENCE
Loyalty from a duke thus, protecting queen ADHERENCE
Pair with vision looked for victims PREYED
Man following retired woman’s turn of phrase IDIOM
Crane-like bird Turkish commander found by main road AGAMI
Person investigating an American man on board? CHECKER
Prosaic concern, not on law matter-of-fact
Wiping light cover DUSTING
Small team specially tasked to take the back off? DETAIL
Produce bypassing a Mediterranean island CRETE
Woman runs business, one conveying messages by air CARRIER PIGEON
Overheard to whimper like a baby, being cross? MULE
A French vessel in sea, lacking identification UNMARKED
Concept everyone associated at first with papers IDEA
Measure of liquid bridge-player put in large vessel GALLEON
President at bar, next to a flower arrangement IKEBANA
Touring Rhode Island, old lover carries minute scarlet flag ORIFLAMME
Wasted time supporting unmarried female writer MISSPENT
Cook slowly, throwing in a bit of lard? Less fat SLIMMER
Distinctive theory is mathematician’s first ISM
Glow, good meal being cooked GLEAM
Relax, unwell after church CHILL
Very, very indifferent so-so
Took risks — kicked bucket across entrance to crescent DICED
County is grand nearly the whole time GALWAY
Even I find this creature fantastic YETI
Some Syrian drowned valley RIA
Very thin ale sent for replacement LEANEST
Fellow in doorway — painting, possibly? PORTRAYAL
Thin dress material poet picked up TOILE
Crazy old-timers aim to be long remembered immortalised
Barbed prong finally penetrating judge of advanced years JAGGED
Shortly advise dairy product BRIE
Data about popular drugs STATINS
One demonstrated a crystalline compound ISATIN
Accord Henry a new position in church ARCHDEACONRY
Uncontrolled emotion blowing up this year HYSTERIA
Union leader in public vehicle getting over a shock TRAUMA
Naval officer, one with two daughters in motor yacht MIDDY
Unemployed debt-collector bitten by ruddy insect! REDUNDANT
Seriousness of natural attraction GRAVITY
Stupid aspersion in speech, gradually losing force DIMINUENDO
Meaningfully, I get close to den IN EARNEST
Garment, new, shoplifted? STOLEN
It’s measured along a meridian, in the main NAUTICAL MILE
Very excited in the past by golf AGOG
By its very nature top fiasco is disastrous IPSO FACTO
Pounds invested in women’s area in New York district HARLEM
Fairly sour press employee caught dipping into grant SUBACID
These mountains tending to shake? ROCKY
Abjure wickedness, as casual visitor does DROPS IN