The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 05 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Voluntary mobile platoon capturing island OPTIONAL
Shawl auntie regularly used for greeting SALUTE
Lacking politeness, if innocuous — merely unsettling UNCEREMONIOUSLY
Stalwart keeps returning as celebrity children’s TV character fireman sam
Walk at a leisurely pace, missing street turn ROLL
Lead Civil Engineer, after promotion, getting rise ADVANCE
Pennant, perhaps right to be carried by older ship STREAMER
Merchant at first devious has to promise to give change METAMORPHOSIS
Stripped, going around grammes lighter BARGE
Stick up letters in position POST
Become submerged in floods in Kingston SINK
Lecture man on sex — husband REITH
Compelled to redo Verdi composition, finally DRIVEN
Place tart in cool PLACID
Right argument in favour for each PROPER
Paper copy ECHO
Ecstasy, see, when one’s out for a duck EVADE
What may contain beer — Courage, perhaps BOTTLE
See about register for US arts venue LINCOLN CENTER
Reasons copper’s got to arrest E European dictator CEAUSESCU
Flat has garden — we hear sound of bees ho-hum
Young eel abandoning lake at any time EVER
Flap in one’s in-tray to-do
Short letter rejecting new fiction LIE
Restoration of wild rye after cover is ploughed up RECOVERY
Peers having come up briefly returned drunk ARISTOS
Don’t strike boy in hat STETSON
Settled a selfish desire AGREED
Second rate, poor Aston Villa, losing 5-1 on aggregate BALLAST
One used to snap and be tearful, upset by urgent news FLASHBULB
Commentator’s to favour one side’s scorer LISZT
Odd or even excerpts from voluntaries OUTRE
Small garden implement — what could be about a foot SHOE
White loaf to stop a short period of fasting ALBUMEN
Demanding toy car HARDTOP
Container not motoring group’s to return CARTON