The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 04 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A case of champagne? Great! ACE
Christmas lunch? It didn’t go down too well TURKEY
Councillor stupidly alarmed? Not at first ALDERMAN
Depict duke fighting back DRAW
Doled out by Royal Engineers, or kept back? RESERVED
Excite female anger FIRE
Exercises, so ready for trip to Cuba? PESO
Handle force in Panama perhaps HAFT
Honour half-cut Venetian judge VENERATE
Idiotic order to a chap facing bull TOREADOR
Join American in Florence on vacation FUSE
Long to finish early in 2022 perhaps YEAR
Nervously edge near deserter RENEGADE
Safe place for Hardy heroine to cross river FORTRESS
Spike article about king PIERCE
What about grabbing old garden tool? HOE
The Spanish invested in wine for drinks cabinet. CELLARET
Stage dance sequence STEP
Scriptures record one saint taking off shortly EPISTLES
Regularly reuse, in gym, a training shoe ESPADRILLE
Ready to support service for card users CASHBACK
Travelling like men and woman from Battersea, maybe KENNELMAID
Place in office on public view lately? INSTATE
Overburdened boat crew outwardly united WEIGHTED
Queen bearing grand letters exits EGRESSES
Standard document variously biased towards graduate PRO FORMA
Hastily shift marsh plant RUSH
Start of Lennon's Imagine reworked, conveying modern message EMAILING
Be like a son avoiding mass again RESEMBLE
As nice as Ritz's top cocktail ARSENIC
Aforementioned copper since retired SAID
Adult follows mounted troops moving part of generator ARMATURE
Snooty Isabella did appear in part la-di-da
In recession, LA rents rise rapidly SPIRAL
Fly around Pole? That’s a joke JEST
Cunning scheme making you gasp WHEEZE
A dish — such as curry? HOT STUFF
Old nationalist boycotts strike, run internally BLACKSHIRT
Licence not paid for by government, we're told free rein
Current motorway schedule easily followed? IMITABLE