The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Current, live and active ONGOING
Short stage performance, shortened DRAM
Cut when drunk HEWN
Cry in my cell, lacking covers YELL
Season when exercise in boxing arena curtailed RIPEN
Soil regularly gets into mangle and grinder MOLAR
Lassitude and sexlessness in a province undergoing recession INANITION
Popular team locked up INSIDE
Animal has run from rocky outcrops OCTOPUS
Number working over 24 hours is twelve NOONDAY
African country, one a republic NIGERIA
Churchman going round a nuclear plant REACTOR
Prosecute light infantry pulled up for obstruction ILEUS
Less assertive setter bitten by cat MOUSIER
Bullied into releasing a sweeping statement GENERALISATION
Psychoanalyst's right to probe rivalry FREUD
Exhibits case of rare gifts REPRESENTS
Sister's taken in by advisor or ally SORORAL
Heavy female companion supported by staff HENCHMAN
Angry son leaving Mansfield in a rage INFLAMED
House in architect's drawing, silver in principle PLANTAGENET
Very rainy start to week quickly disheartened everyone MONSOONAL
Mum's eaten bananas for fun AMUSEMENT
Solvent spilled at once OCTANE
Articulate spirit, or spirits DJINN
Place where ties knotted SITE
Use ace disguise, we hear AVAIL
Provincial university beginning to tackle dishonesty OUTLYING
Musical direction, it being reversed by old king TUTTI
At home following golf, strange game GIN RUMMY
Obtain excellent start GET CRACKING
Dinosaur droppings collected by institute's top academic IGUANODON
Row over origin of nylon fabric LINEN
Important to make your mark when I don't have a pen? SIGNIFICANT
Similar piece of metal I keep ALIKE
Funny stand-up handled domestic item DUSTPAN
Set aside yearbook, ignoring second article ANNUL
Hairy skin of individual in front PILOSE
Snug, wings of goldfinch tucked into bird TIGHT
Earn revenue from items one designed MONETISE
First of lives finished off — dead LATE
Shock as fishcakes initially run out AFRO