The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 07 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Strange priests carry on PERSIST
Idle head one can toast? LOAF
Some attitude: let everyone strike! DELETE
Small bristle cut SAWN
Frees one in Calais? He’s crossing meadows UNLEASHES
Refusals of Pope, finally, to visit Craggy Island DENIALS
Screw up and down FLUFF
Tune Mrs Doyle ruined to a great extent TREMENDOUSLY
Countryman losing fifty days is bound to work YOKED
Put out tabloid newspaper: about time STUN
Black distillate company placed on communion table coal tar
Praise, employing some pretext, oligarch EXTOL
Three quarters of squad leaves TEA
Mass, I bet, is a blunder MISTAKE
Sailor's shanty came briefly unstuck YACHTSMEN
Joggers do it right, in small measure TROT
Work, going forward and back, for counterpart OPPO
Actor’s article’s on how play begins THESP
Name Old Boy in case most virtuous NOBLEST
Untimely work in popular haven, French one INOPPORTUNE
Current show time? present-day
Instructions at race supplied by willing firm before game READY STEADY GO
Shock treatment for a criminal? AFRO
Cuppa from Peg, we hear TEA
Willing maiden grabbed by anonymous Greek hero AGAMEMNON
Lascivious looks Dougal gets every so often OGLES
Covert adviser hopeless in emergencies EMINENCE GRISE
Flummoxed announcer's finished in US THREW
In Blackpool, say, where one can walk for miles? PROM
It follows chicken: empty cage HENCE
Cry from learner in difficulty close to corner HOLLER
Substance keeping dry, so it appears, inside drain DESICCANT
Small amount of material initially covered in course PATCH
Heterosexual couple disheartened evangelical wing of church lady chapel
Opening jump START
Youngster ultimately despises Holy Joe SPRIG
One’s holding loud objections IFS
Suffering trauma? Ask for stimulating reading matter? KAMA SUTRA
One feels insect repelled girl ANTENNA
Yaks, grand beasts of burden GASSES
Knocks loose board in Norfolk town DISLODGES