The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Eager to express grief KEEN
About to find out what’s for afters? CRUMBLE
Military command point indeed abandoned eyes left
Pickle bottles tavern put out again REPUBLISH
Fairly rich source in need of attention well-to-do
Refined European press chief POLISHED
Snowstorm initially battering reptile, it’s said BLIZZARD
Character no longer granted a service THORN
Illness doctor met in LA AILMENT
Superior toy, it hit you, not quite made as required hoity-toity
Hate crime: case for officer ABHOR
Herb such as sage, mostly one appearing in meadow LEWISIA
Valladolid miss some half-dozen international backs INEZ
Female metalworker in once besieged city LADYSMITH
Council promotes area for outing JAUNT
Post aperitif, initially produce eggs and a rice dish JAMBALAYA
Possesses objects Henry lost in battle HASTINGS
Depart hurriedly, biting insect being heard FLEE
Dazed state disorientating Proust STUPOR
Popular woman’s appeal to succeed INHERIT
Old women graduates containing wild country spirit BABUSHKAS
Cool, running water, for mud-lover HIPPO
Eg Sikes’s account BILL
Trendy group securing start of county cricket, perhaps INSECT
Unsuitable environment for Republican poet BARD
Time to go back and make improvements EDIT
Volunteers six fur wraps in compound to control bleeding? vitamin k
Last words to sailor recalled? It’s not ringing a bell rat-a-tat
Extra publicity academic add-on
Men turned against officers, absurdly over-decorated ROCOCO
Example of fashionable attitude INSTANCE
Tease husband in popular eating-place CHAFF
Poisonous plant identified by male sailor MANDRAKE
Start to consult adviser, making small boat CORACLE
Class extremely impressive in glasses SPECIES
Initially how any respectable girl makes a wind instrument HARMONICA
Primates coming from aristocracy, duke being one LORIS
Have forty winks before noon? No, twelve DOZEN
Timely preparation for retreat into immorality PROVIDENCE
Vegetable eaten at first in Pennsylvania PEA
Vehicle used on farm? About right CART
Institute legal proceedings against university in Home Counties SUE