The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 03 24

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