The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 03 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Help about element helium separation APARTHEID
Job, perhaps one dividing half of sheep up STOIC
Become tired at work, making large container FLAGON
Place of noisy entertainment, such as Piccadilly? CIRCUS
What will help one stay clean in dodgy stand-up DUSTPAN
Odd nun eventually getting cut down to size UNEVEN
Endlessly long period of time YEAR
The Speaker’s set of rooms is very nice SWEET
Sinister rising member of upper house cutting Young Conservatives CREEPY
Second shopping centre not very big SMALL
Play I act badly out of character ATYPICAL
Reluctant to have a bit of poetry AVERSE
Cockney injured carrying a gun? ARMED
Knocking back lager a mistake? SLIP
Wise women young Satan corrupted AGONY AUNTS
American boy outside shouting where are hidden presents? BRAN TUB
Lifeless? Exactly! DEAD
The French emperor’s land in Africa LESOTHO
Provide food initially to everyone boarding railway carriage CATER
Agree to what one might do to unruly hair PERMIT
Complain after ancient coin found in rhubarb dish ROAST BEEF
Helper of St Paul in eastern Tarsus, travelling ERASTUS
Obscure Byzantine coteries ESOTERIC
Mammal’s milk, iodine rich primarily TAPIR
One’s predecessor reacts on being corrected ANCESTOR
Way of getting around remoter areas after boat returns POSTBUS
Can curates cut up a lobster? CRUSTACEAN
Irishman reading stuff current in newspaper? PADRAIG
Raised to desert pack TAROT
Hard dividing an irrational number, which Diophantus once showed PHI
Single-minded and certain to hold volunteers back DEDICATED
Elders apt to get drunk — very drunk PLASTERED
Food company restricted by ban BACON
Reporter’s aircraft not much to look at PLAIN
What might confer a degree of tact when cutting cold Yankee DIPLOMA
In disrepair, old-time banners unable to be shown INDEMONSTRABLE
Socialist’s position on team? left-wing
Examine underground laboratory item TEST TUBE
Emperor backed an Iranian language, banning son’s imperial title RAS TAFARI