The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 08 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
One in pursuit of spirit to follow beer, perhaps CHASER
Fake sign of unpaid bill in English club SPURIOUS
No longer virginal, but not pursued, we hear UNCHASTE
Executive's helper to keep teasing model PARAGON
Ship moving slowly out of lake ARGO
The very bright edges of earring and garish extra decorations EGGHEADS
Explanations of say French art welcomed by lovers once EXEGESES
Tail pinned to cuckoo END POINT
Farmer digesting extremes of horror in crime novel THRILLER
American journalist subjected to exploitation USED
Size of area in top conurbation CAPACITY
Blue movie of Hitchcock's right to go after terror IMPROPER
Silver-haired poet mentioned in speech GREY
Truant's old boring tool cases AWOL
In Paris, my sister picked up a rubber MASSEUR
Army poet’s sleeveless jacket TABARD
Equable English archdeacon EVEN
Painstaking, albeit lacking in refinement THOROUGH
Untidy person content to leave India for European country SLOVENIA
Showing appreciation of a quantity of ashes? GRATEFUL
Genuine-sounding angler’s device REEL
Accepted in Jodhpur, serving ship’s officer PURSER
Soldiers take steps to secure new weaponry ORDNANCE
Cryptic indication of Sally or Jack's rank second mate
Deny one plugs hit record at first DISCLAIM
Forceful surgeon engaging macho types VEHEMENT
Songbird principally nesting under material on roof NUTHATCH
Almost set out to be a celebrity STAR
Hostility from states no one's backing AVERSION
When one may get a nasty shock? BAD HAIR DAY
Instance of arsenic being brought into church CASE
Cordial but not popular? One may blow up GRENADE
Game played by good university teacher GURU
Charmed in brief period before spring SPELLBOUND
After struggle, woman raised capital in Europe VIENNA
Returned garments displaying blemish SPOT
“Two portions of meat — and be quick about it!” chop-chop
Pair entertaining great fondness for shore bird PLOVER
Creature identified by duke on small low-lying island DONKEY
Change item in variety show TURN
Pal I shot mistakenly — and where he ended up? HOSPITAL
Favourable result — reverse of home leg in capital city WINNIPEG
Bells ring only up to noon during visit CARILLON
Take a lot of time to become socially accepted? BELONG
How amazing to be welcomed by host one meets stone me