The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 02 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Cheerful message received: it's a flag JOLLY ROGER
Nut on beam in engine part CRANKSHAFT
Night before always short EVE
Newspaper crime THEFT
Scent country has shackled newspaper FRAGRANCE
Fried food more reckless? RASHER
Blokes, great nuisance MENACE
Awfully bad line, message ultimately unsubstantiated DENIABLE
Remarkably regal composer ELGAR
Food, say, ending in dressing EGG
Falsehood largely inaccurate, erroneous, first of all LIE
Dull outside broadcast TEDIOUS
Zero put on tax? One at work gives sustained applause OVATION
Where democracy initially denied, draws lots OODLES
Unstructured mass survey needs sending back to party DOLLOP
One very upset about commercial describing food prepared beforehand oven-ready
Reader worried by Burke or Hare finally choosing body ELECTORATE
Not feeling pressure in extremely close finish DEAD HEAT
Mystical system Henry introduced to eccentric Soho type THEOSOPHY
Reportedly, team sounded exasperated SIGHED
Soak in spirit and ignite meat in empty furnace FLAMBE
Tease child KID
A little superhero me, original Casanova ROMEO
Under contract finally, see pretty amazing old print worker TYPESETTER
Being old man, large ruffian should contain reduced crowd FATHERHOOD
Abrasive former student one's interrupted ALUMINA
Impact one expects to have? BUMP
Voter, English speaker ELECTOR
A nut winning AHEAD
Cry out in sorrow when displacing back joint KNEE
Cheeses spoken of for picnic BREEZE
A leader upset about western state DELAWARE
Strangler's device police informer carries round NOOSE
Comes in, displacing monarch, to find wooden characters ENTS
Building old and as you see unfinished OASTHOUSE
I'd turned medieval guitar's tone down DILUTE