The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Wasteful academic delayed welcoming soldier back PROFLIGATE
I run up and check PIN RIVET
Give away extremely useful key in seedy bar DIVULGE
Scented mixture first brought back for French king and emperor POTPOURRI
Surprise as some Birmingham bus hijacked AMBUSH
I’d put in note reflecting change EDIT
Toughest RAF training in great demand sought-after
Leaping over arched work in roof VAULTING
Worsted yarn wife found in fish basket CREWEL
Oddly it draws in a believer in natural selection DARWINIST
Pastry dishes brought up for daughter in Warks town STRATFORD
What we may have in summer for a period of instruction LESSON
Country house girl introducing European verse form VILLANELLE
Genuine misprint LITERAL
Language of Inland Revenue is hard IRISH
Drink a politician offered, depending on chance ALEATORY
Libertine group originally haunting a former capital LOTHARIO
Primitive tribe finally allowed a man to keep servants ELEMENTAL
Pungent account run by certain papers ACRID
Storyline inspiring current TV try-out, perhaps PILOT
Botched manicure dreadful, ultimately, in digits? NUMERICAL
Cleaning part of building, coming across burnt remains WASHING
Hairdressers, perhaps, try less rearranging STYLERS
Not prepared for revolution, or major conflict WAR
Only second half of hymn is formal and dignified SOLEMN
Sign on apartment maybe one removed from gents? to let
Mad Peter and I out for a spin PIROUETTE
Sultanate, British, and a French one BRUNEI
Each set of figures suitable for consumption EATABLE
Heavily built, yet am shoved around MEATY
Slow road engulfed by Scottish river TARDY
Like some wine yours truly had talked of, showing no emotion dry-eyed
Right to stop daily cake: it causes skin condition! SUNBURN
Declares valuable items when crossing border, finally ASSERTS
Dared do cleaner‘s job, getting round resistance DURST
Plant soldiers concealed outside entrance to camp ORCHID
Close relation starts to sing in shower SIS
Reason for fading light in part of Leinster? WICKLOW
Bestow first class mark: you’ll see it in Cambridge GRANTA
Devout Cockney crossing green in full view OVERTLY
Excessively sentimental message? Not entirely TWEE
Oscar having to hang around to do some housework? HOOVER
A holiday-maker is more affected CAMPER
Lukewarm fare served up quietly inside TEPID
Union leader forcing insurrection UPRISING
Source of light a big hit in space GAS LAMP
Ambassador in temperate area — a character! THETA