The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Timer displaying agreeable figure? HOURGLASS
Wheels for convenience are working: first class fit RUNABOUT
A little fish, or sea animal HORSE
Desert 12 across STRAND
Enemy froze, oddly FOE
English university looking at literature READING
Immediately behind leader in little time? SECOND
Little boat's heading into cove BABY
Meaty artist? BACON
Ready for firing when loaded? MONEY TO BURN
Position under hoop, where players may be BANDSTAND
Metal in fact inert, partly TIN
Spread complete by start of banquet BUTTER
Tiny dab, almost ridiculously small and neat DAINTY
Walk across hotel to find yarn THREAD
Lively performer smashing up boat and car ACROBAT
Into drugs, nine played sport TABLE TENNIS
Inactive, impassive dog lacking exercise, originally IDLE
Letter, or what’s added to it by one PSI
Hope to let out type of camera TELEPHOTO
Grasping person before finding support in choir stall MISERERE
Foot light SETTLE
Film character, Jack perhaps? picture card
Fear mistake after beginning of trial TERROR
Duck: one protected by wild deer EIDER
Experienced? Only from what we hear NEW
Deserts from armed conflict inspired by Trotskyite? REWARD
Cross quietly taken from crib IRATE
Collar getting black: race to find cleaner NAILBRUSH
Clumsy Yankee should have let go earlier UNHANDY
Base missing from stone grate RUB
Sub has left for a bar U BOLT
No can do! bottle party
Returning skint upset somewhat original world tourist SPUTNIK
Sports summary: just ahead in boxing match? round-up
Playing mostly rock, host support bands COHORTS
One dwelling in Ontario, also Garda, oddly unseen? NAIAD
First for group closing, performing cover for festival GLASTONBURY
After school exam, finally escape for a chat SCHMOOZE
Maybe opposing women’s teams in cup tie: one’s knocked out SEXISM
Fine old pair of openers, one briefly about to perform okey-doke
Finances put a stop to audible suffering? ENDOWS