The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 04 01

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