The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 11 12

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