The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Erects billets puts up
Tree in land close to sea, we hear BEECH
Dance very unnecessary in party REEL
Appeal of domestic cleaner, little maiden CHARM
Caught fibres in items of furniture CHAIRS
Resort in Iberian country not favoured SPA
Dominant kid grabbing Pole repeatedly BOSSY
Take out old pamphlet EXTRACT
Intense skill, circling where animal hides ARDENT
Ought US city to be gripped by an obsession? ANYTHING
Person possibly given documentation after prison sentence life form
Unhappy about German city's educational establishment SORBONNE
Start to climb up to get on piece of furniture CUPBOARD
Imagine avoiding one tricky puzzle! ENIGMA
Be a girl, disguised in nativity play role? GABRIEL
Peer coming ahead of time stopped prematurely EARL
Policeman redirected persons to crime INSPECTOR MORSE
Catwalk is home to a fugitive RUNAWAY
Juice to some extent poisonous apparently SAP
Scrutinise attention in school SEARCH
Base receiving warning after cream tea curdled — when still edible? best-before date
Jock's exclamation about a particular colour OCHRE
Uplifting demeanour in dire situation DOOM
£25, including fees returned by Mike Carroll? PSEUDONYM
A hundred and one restrictions in places like Leeds CITIES
Nuts as items on Christmas table CRACKERS
Court request collected works — has to involve President first habeas corpus
Writer’s one book covered in a lot of rubble SCRIBE
“Fancy beer,” I crow, “runs in my place for making it” MICROBREWERY
Managed to continue in Asian capital once RANGOON
Move poet to pen right line PROPEL
Fail to stress indication of softness in some carpeting? UNDERPLAY
Said again, looking embarrassed about country RESTATED
Boy eating a vegetable BEAN
A cry for help about worst poisonous substance ASBESTOS
Courageous and fortunate in pursuit of power PLUCKY