The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 22

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