The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Long period before November YEARN
Dropping back, strayed around Irish town ENNIS
After tax returns, collapse several times TENFOLD
Old bird beginning to twitch in ditch MOAT
Note feature of act MIDDLE C
Bringing up a beef gravy initially in need of stirring GROUSING
A November in which female sits looking poorly? ASHEN
Twelve practise meditation, possibly? DOZEN
Taste endless meal, but no starter, in club TRUNCHEON
Funny company host entertaining one COMIC
Tension from opening of secure lock STRESS
Porter maybe for an old king COLE
One's issue about oxygen, or about its forms? ISOTOPIC
Speed of ships west of promontory FLEETNESS
Check uranium has been removed from passage ADIT
Belief in number of commandments from a world beyond TENET
Robber is quiet and angry PIRATE
Like soldier from America clutching good spears ASPARAGUS
Duck in river in Italy and river in African country POCHARD
Make a stink about showbiz magazine's twaddle HOKUM
Flowers contributing to Easter Sunday ASTERS
The Spanish drinking your old kind of alcohol ETHYL
Musing male in area covered by tiny bit of litter? RUMINANT
Two different gulls or a woodpecker SAPSUCKER
Requirement came first, making one annoyed NEEDLED
Sober? I assume half of bottle drunk ABSTEMIOUS
What convicts do after stealing, when job's done knocking-off time
Old boy's meeting priest on street, becoming most vague OBSCUREST
Observe phantom, about to move forwards RESPECT
Model car running around rubbish pile REPLICA
First lady to occupy chair, unusually successful person ACHIEVER
Travelling requirement in France not fun PASSPORT
Part of foot to squeeze, but not softly! INCH
Tribe about to take most of country CLAN
Periodically parroted European writer's style ART DECO
A tiny store specially designed for office materials STATIONERY
Person in movement stormed in furiously MODERNIST
Complex way to end a call hang-up
Upset player given recognition and measured CAPSIZED
Officer studies information systematically displayed CONSTABLE
Bear running loose in New York right behind you! NEARBY