The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 01 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Amphibian originally featuring in sci-fi film EFT
Approaches engendered by certain scorers? OVERTURES
Dull piece of floor-covering MAT
Expert identifying species of flatfish DAB
Fellow doctor at fight COMBAT
Flexible individual initially visiting ruined castle ELASTIC
Headless rodent by barrier in European capital AMSTERDAM
Helper on vessel talked of for a number of years DECADE
Learner in group lacking illumination UNLIT
Musician’s device satisfied small number in capital METRONOME
Part of circle primarily haunting gateway, perhaps ARCH
President Lincoln’s tip for second son? ABEL
Row about granny’s first big cat TIGER
Stiffened fabric a couple of male animals required BUCKRAM
Titled person needing oxygen in Greater London borough BARONET
Torment omnivorous nocturnal mammal BADGER
Standard, one consistently falling short COMMON
Old sailor wearing light, tight garment LEOTARD
Graduate getting zero on a stiff paper MANILA
Go free from Baltic? ZING
Back firm briefly employing family member SECOND COUSIN
Evidently need oil pipe SQUEAK
Elders quietly replaced by trees next to railway PRESBYTERY
Drive away reformed killer, perhaps, wiser after case dismissed EXORCISE
Vague desire maybe to get husband for Yankee lady at last wishy-washy
What shoppers do after failure to find cooking ingredient LEMON GRASS
Come to a halt by front of pub in Ireland EXPIRE
Force king to accept a top politician’s charter map-maker
Poet’s light, mostly obscene book day-lewis
1000, say; slightly more ones and zeroes MEGABIT
WHERE CRICKETERS PRACTISE CATCHES NETS
Close relative runs into trouble BROTHER
Old sailor damages hot saline boggy area salt marsh
Do reduce your litter! sell a pup
Day trip in need of whacking great deposit pay dirt
Capital made of gossip — PC covered in shame panama city
Animated cow in garden to barge in after hesitation ERMINTRUDE
Tips on weapons hardware, so varied ARROWHEADS
Succeed ultimately, say, as painter and sculptor DEGAS
Singer in bar given banknote, we hear COUNTERTENOR