The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 10 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Lock where key may be found a hindrance RINGLET
Mind vehicle at end of avenue CARE
Self-satisfied, giving sweets up SMUG
Failure overtakes our team again? LAPSUS
Buffer created by E European monarch POLISHER
Draw out? It’s not allowed, we hear ELICIT
Willing to support objective when mate approaches? ENDGAME
Stale old joke involving golden-brown horse CHESTNUT
Slow mover upsetting to Tories TORTOISE
Blended whiskey to crack open as roast’s cooked? INWOVEN
Girl unknown in part of New England MAXINE
For example, Oscar’s sense of self-importance EGO
Vital Geordie heads for Fleet Street? NEEDED
Small fish producing appalling smell STENCH
What makes ham have harmful ingredient! VENOM
Cut out for duty EXCISE
Piece of furniture you reportedly can set up UNIT
Build hotel by Yankee Stadium’s entrance? Irritation all round PHYSIQUE
Woman’s husband entering compound ESTHER
Hang about for hearing, having influence WEIGHT
Ready to accept English chef’s first guide to food preparation RECIPE
Poet, second Graves, maybe, eclipsing Smart SWINBURNE
Direct course of male ox STEER
Dimwit’s stupefying drug DOPE
Letter abroad recalled very different times OMEGA
Box only initially missing from humorous drawing CARTON
Catch sight of article, displaying fury SEETHING
Necromancer’s errors unexpectedly overwhelming church SORCERER
Knight leaves Scottish island for western US state IOWA
Maybe fighter’s fitness trainer who is unusually small AIRWORTHINESS
Time to take in film, ensconced in Peg’s sofa tete-a-tete
Country having long border where you find it YEMEN
Inflorescence identified by Tom and family CATKIN
A head turning to a starchy tuber POTATO