The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 11 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
In good time, like a nobleman quite possibly? EARLY
Eliminate king in peace ERASE
A group working in desert ABANDON
Conservative failure is not so far away CLOSER
Bullying bear, supposedly, in heartless Tory THUGGERY
Mog kept rhino? KITTY
Reader put off leaving DEPARTURE
Reptilian, one providing extra publicity? PUFF ADDER
Calf in a state? NEW JERSEY
Maturer blokes somehow becoming rabble-rousers TROUBLEMAKERS
Action English novelist mentioned WAR
Light Muscat or Chablis bottles TORCH
Old fighter added old weapon CLAYMORE
Change in bottom line REARRANGE
Dish served in bistro’s tinned! ROSTI
Say no to waste! REFUSE
Awfully unimportant: a UK leader in crisis — stop perhaps? PUNCTUATION MARK
Lord perhaps having a way to open port ARISTO
Country gent, oddly evil MALIGN
Have fun in small place like Dover? SPORT
Doctor loves crack SOLVE
Parent cut up about teenager, primarily PATER
Small amount earned from singer, I hear TENNER
An idiot in Belgian port ANTWERP
Free show on Five VINDICATE
Festival given name from China? EASTERN
Friend in Paris, clever and cheerful AMIABLE
Secure gnome — feller? CHAINSAW
Soon begrudge going into work PRESENTLY
Found leading tennis match? SET UP
When picked up, character leaves TEA
Part of ship first of all in urgent need, wrecked in storm GUNWALE
Lack of belief in time has dissipated ATHEISM
Dead giant in play TOTALLY
Floating marketing division ADRIFT
Goods in river an annoyance NIGGLE
Handing cards out twice? That’s cheating double-dealing
Vanish, as will setter taking exercise? GO WALKIES
A trotter for cooking? AFOOT
Some feared capricious military cop REDCAP
Dolly, an artist’s model SITTER