The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 03 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A single voracious fish announced, one demanding huge interest? loan shark
African winger to go round, arrowing crosses over: just headers TOURACO
Diarmuid, Irishman holding back what’s in platinum alloy? IRIDIUM
Taxis to join up, moving about in proximity JUXTAPOSITION
Nocturnal creature, European, eaten by man GENET
Missing centrepiece of meals, hurried for a big shop SUPERSTORE
Condition of rugby forward attracting gossip LOCKJAW
Deft, I drew out tangle drift-weed
US dustbins found in carwash can stink! ASHCANS
Excellent man on island holiday good friday
Backchat? It’s marginal LIP
Evasively holding up entry permit VISA
PM’s corrupt payouts AUTOPSY
Doting fan has circuit to follow LAPDOG
Demanding some coffee INSTANT
Arab is soon to return OMANI
It can produce regenerated tail, no trouble NEWT
Pal mob’s jostling showing sangfroid APLOMB
What may cover grave at heart of chapel? EPITAPH
Colossal, as is star’s study? ASTRONOMICAL
Miss is fanatical, grabbing ring AVOID
Who in class knows what’s said by gunman? hands up
Lift raincoat to find part of shaft CAM
Tug, small, for US nationals YANKS
For carnivore, flesh: let me see a kilo being eaten MEERKAT
Colour of a courtyard, mainly AQUA
Sluggishly, and awfully idly, going round Australia DOZILY
Lampoons SNP logo: a fish, oddly SPOOFS
Shot leaving car at home here? on drive
Spare place finally accepted by officer not attached to body EXTRACORPOREAL
WI location: BA has to carry mum BAHAMAS
Potty is available for president MADISON
Gorky’s words of wisdom? MAXIM
What was for writing in quiz, mostly fifty-fifty QUILL
Contrived paintings, one functionary’s short of ARTIFICIAL
Counters a disease vector, cutting off half ABACI
Significance of ring, perhaps, and why it isn’t answered engaged signal
Russian conductor of choir provost put right ROSTROPOVICH