The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Start on instruction, right away causing amusement ENTERTAINING
Unwilling promise by left LOATH
End Ptolemy’s shifting movement of eg troops DEPLOYMENT
English National Opera dates raised in interval SEMITONE
Poor American lad losing heart, like some senior councillors ALDERMANIC
Nation, say STATE
Runs engine very swiftly when starting? REVS
Travel about carrying small shrub GORSE
Quick profit involving cocaine PACY
Highly populated like Lincoln? Not initially RESIDENTIAL
Celebrate wildly, being suitable for putting up erectable
Seize woman not fully identified ANNEX
Coin once used in City University ECU
Couple taken in some time after retirement ITEM
Songbird enveloped at first in brightly-coloured flags REED BUNTING
Malagueña Ben dancing is too demanding UNMANAGEABLE
Be closely involved in short treatise about English INTERACT
Brightness shown by English in old Welsh county briefly GLEAM
Novelist’s crazed beast caught between two similar crossings FORD MADOX FORD
I manage to catch CO and son overturning electron camera ICONOSCOPE
Older person dismissing one Spanish fellow SENOR
Tree harsh old American disposed of in a song ARAUCARIA
Deceive a few about source of mulligatawny soup CONSOMME
Right place set out for package PARCEL
Sports club employee: no good? He delivers ROUNDSMAN
Aristocrats, small number moved by current sign NOBLEWOMEN
Caliban upset about new man-eater? CANNIBAL
Main feature of gundog, away in Scotland for first time? SEAWATER
Like flying birds circling new canvas sunshade AWNING
Sad case of whiskey leading to vomit WRETCH
Upset concerning monarch’s seat, we hear OVERTHROWN
Horrific travel by railway GORY
Brace of small fish, not old STRUT
Bracing air a person found round most of animal park OZONE
Celebrity using half of capital touring India LION
Reportedly next in line’s bearing AIR
Friends regularly hiding chap put in custody REMAND
Girls originally employed in banks look at ornamental gem tigers-eye
Showing confidence about city firm SECURE