The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Shepherd’s first try to remove a fleece SHEAR
Dreadful fare cooked, not all FEARSOME
Brats go up to vandalise superior hostelry GASTROPUB
Tom maybe has a fit of temper — explosive meltdown? CATASTROPHE
Gentleman sent back fish dish (it's ''crumby'') RISSOLE
A measure of force to implant monitor in rodent VOLTAGE
Bird, one sadly missing out — it can't fly! PIG
Opposed directly, one had adapted head-on
One begged for a repeat PARDON
Crazy girl I dumped MAD
About to dive into water? Hold it! BREATH
Like message passed on to be perused, having got tidied up? READDRESSED
Second-rate monarch is moving BETAKING
Feeble golf becomes an obsession THING
This writer's needing to demonstrate progress IMPROVE
Bit of wood left at back of farm in risky operation BRANCHLET
Spirit a little melancholy ELAN
Daughter, robust but stupefied DRUGGED
Aunt cooked fish TUNA
River for you to sit beside somewhere in Sussex RYE
US soldier back visiting a second friend from abroad AMIGO
Religious proviso one gets in a church offering words of wisdom? ADVICE
One marsh turning into desert GOBI
A long time later, when we’re closed? AFTER HOURS
As hooter is heard, votes against NOES
Poirot’s cases were never so like a baffling crossword? UNSOLVED
In quarrel notice piercing tool BRADAWL
Giant oil spills making a sort of design INTAGLIO
Enduring holding vote outside EXTERNAL
At centre of village, social event for politicians GREEN PARTY
European married in Kent? SWEDE
Small balls in position one doesn't want to lose BEARINGS