The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 09 07

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Talk tediously about old whale killer HARPOON
Capital worker, one tucking into starchy pudding SANTIAGO
A cold fish accepting she shows weakness ACHILLES HEEL
Sale in pub invaded by extreme characters first of all BAZAAR
Meat traveller brought back in covered basket HAMPER
Butcher's no good for pop LANCE
Old man died in flat PAD
Short girl starts to revel in race for water treatment CHLORINATION
Gold only found in old lady’s stately tomb MAUSOLEUM
Spray son parking in heap of snow SPINDRIFT
In nervous state, having a modest bet AFLUTTER
Appropriate to support Her Majesty PROPER
To term clerics eccentric creates great disturbance electric storm
Quiet girl absorbing a film PATINA
Inexperienced eco-politician GREEN
A male attorney climbing in front AHEAD
Clergyman bringing six to vehicle VICAR
Rascally con attracting cry of irritation once SCAMPISH
Hard nut in bad accident hit-and-run
Endlessly long story is flop SAG
Villain needs second to enter study DEMON
Outstanding feature of church fenced in by popular duke INSPIRED
Set fire to brown coal left unused IGNITE
Left in Paris? That's awkward! GAUCHE
One as eligible keeps artistic support? EASEL
Written in Sanskrit, he takes letter to Greeks THETA
Your compiler’s turn to catch a butterfly perhaps IMAGO
Top criminal seizing power SPINNER
Marriageable bachelor meeting Greek character on French island NUBILE
European in marquee establishes principle TENET
Runs to escape bad-tempered elk MOOSE
Doctor met it in Verdi compositions DIVERTIMENTI
Legal defendant’s false statement about femme fatale? LIBELLEE
Conspicuous source of information, say, taken in at once, almost PROMINENT
Crooked city alarms me when rebuilt ASYMMETRICAL
Pub brings in satellite after opening? It's born of necessity! INVENTION
Stir made by platoon leader originally wearing symbol of rank SPLASH
Sapwood in vessel featuring in book ALBURNUM