The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 11 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Fee paid for a servant RETAINER
Bishop has passionate spirit BRANDY
Bankers destabilised a US state NEBRASKA
I grew desperate, eating a bug EARWIG
French heads holding a private conversation tete-a-tete
Priest who’s soft on crime PARSON
Promiscuous ladies and gents beginning to embrace LOOSE
Raised money, did you say? BRED
Secret agents capturing city group SPECIES
Settle back and gossip YAP
Drunken prince guzzling first of oysters like a pig PORCINE
Sleepers somehow beyond compare PEERLESS
Solemn quality a drunkard lacks? SOBERNESS
Shopping centre closing early in a rural area ARCADIA
Set up party eschewing leadership, in a manner of speaking DIALECT
Seeds pasted by finalist in Miami wearing trendy cap back-to-front TAHINI
Destroy a French force UNMAKE
Dangerous customer two idiots elected ASSASSIN
Norfolk society may be so liberal broad-based
Line up at wall, every aide being reassigned elevated railway
Lawless chief gripped by terror after beheading ANARCHIC
I'll leave fast food firm, having painted wall FRESCO
Give way regarding period of abstinence RELENT
Former Welsh rite recreated ERSTWHILE
Enjoying short-term popularity after setback, government intervening between Brussels and Stormont? in vogue
Distinctive non-clerical records recalled SPECIAL
Defenders scoff — club know-all offering unsolicited directions backseat driver
Danger for each individual on vacation PERIL
Bound to accept gift put up as pledge DEPOSIT
Bipolar shift sees drop in hot water, up to a point PARBOIL
Go quickly, as crab might? NIP
RUN AND HIDE PELT
Old instrument players occasionally taking ecstasy LYRE
Article on first believer in god THEIST
Ancient, a little like an aristocrat? EARLY
Show auto initially entering, not fully charged INDICATE
Sigh of relief not many heard PHEW
Reckons to drink tot first ADDS UP
Polluted pool I abandoned TARNISHED
Breakdown of wages offers hollow tribute when service is deducted PAYSLIP
A penny for criminal in US PERP