The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1172 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1172 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Have son supporting law teams	POSSESS
Home help brought up in the country	INDIA
How they might have financed the Severn crossing?	bridging loan
One in a suit that digs	SPADE
Position of switch repeated, introducing current for bulb	ONION
Quiet woman failing to be exhibitionist	SHOWMAN
Shelved stand that now is fashionable	WHATNOT
Small bird is back	STERN
Somewhere to sit? Not quite: it’s wet	SEA
Sound disappointed with uniform — of ballet dancer?	TUTU
Taxing porridge and fish	GRUELLING
Venomous snakes’ power to inject donkey	ASPS
Was messing with the bandage	SWATHE

Clues	Answers
A copper assay is most important	ACUTEST
Accidentally tip out second tablet	SPILL
Admit Lincs town is out of ham	GRANT
Consume what vegetarians avoid? Not at first	EAT
Current situation Delilah often misrepresented	lie of the land
Dismal fen spattered fine leg, perhaps	FIELDSMAN
Dog I put down as fighter	PUGILIST
Enlisted man obtained leg of mutton	GIGOT
Fish in basic wrapper that is to be scanned	bar code
Flail? Success immediately	WINNOW
Fur is a blessing, to some extent	SABLE
Gathered leader of government wasn’t upright	GLEANED
Grand relative permitted glove	GAUNTLET