The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 09 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Having secret knowledge, lied perhaps about credit being short GNOSTIC
Hotel in capital of Norway INN
Double offence in which king is absorbed SINKS IN
Start and finish not clearly defined open-end
Association of workers on telephone get old teaching TUTELAGE
Rubbish religious books in Barnet HOT AIR
City Mike succeeds in radioing LIMA
Encourage somebody’s effrontery? That’s just embarrassing EGG ON ONES FACE
Unstable, upper-class, suicidal emperor’s story I CLAUDIUS
Newsman inside favouring a hat FEDORA
Standard upheld by a Druid priestess NORMA
Geordie entertaining in matches for a decade NINETIES
Secured page nearly dropped LEASHED
Especially on a training session, we hear casual shoe ESPADRILLE
Organ starts to echo around room EAR
Check temperature on car AUDIT
Feeling for small coin, one to place on drawing PITYING
Record old companion's age EPOCH
Badger returned to capture seabird GANNET
Plan to consume once again aromatic liqueur CHARTREUSE
Called and spoke RUNG
Grandma's Indian side dish NAN
Halt in assigned place STATION
Added salt of copper — revolutionary! CURED
Permitted variations aren’t close when worked out TOLERANCES
Evergreen terrain includes log ENTER
Finishes food each time before drink EATS UP
Period in which one’s at home drinking tea; Alice never quite made it DAISY CHAIN
Popular sci-fi writer peripherally scans Scottish city INVERNESS
Deflect wide probing tennis stroke SWERVE
Loading spin-drier, one seen in Madagascar INDRI
Not keen on new rival type of drug ANTIVIRAL
Boot in sports car working well at first WELLINGTON