The Times Cryptic puzzle clues 2021 Dec 24

• Answer to go down badly after Mike's explosive threat Crossword Clue
• Being high, high up, I hear, without oxygen Crossword Clue
• Bothering to keep railway for transporting Crossword Clue
• Boy right to crack jokes in finery Crossword Clue
• Cheese put on a crossword setter's Japanese dish Crossword Clue
• Comfortable place to prepare tea I pour finally Crossword Clue
• Crazy solvers! Crossword Clue
• Diamonds, maybe, found by detective sergeant beneath vehicle Crossword Clue
• Dissolute characters from Govan in French city Crossword Clue
• Do away with escort Crossword Clue
• Dog's way to get in trouble with the RSPCA? Crossword Clue
• Drink accompanying food with nothing in it Crossword Clue
• Due to merge bizarrely with Legal & General Crossword Clue
• Dwarf hiding pennies in grass Crossword Clue
• Egg on lady, every so often getting first prize? Crossword Clue
• European skill behind film — it enhances sounds Crossword Clue
• Fine wines prepared eg in vats Crossword Clue
• Follower, what lady showing a lot of leg may have? Crossword Clue
• Frantically casing lot, yearning for the past Crossword Clue
• Free from charge after inconclusive unfair accusation Crossword Clue
• Glossy publication, maybe one for the wise Crossword Clue
• Grace perhaps follows bad end for outlaw Crossword Clue
• Hand in dictionary that’s left out Crossword Clue
• Here’s some gifts Crossword Clue
• Holding a piece of hose Crossword Clue
• In the morning I turn to find friend Crossword Clue
• Jittery neurotic around a time for gas explosion Crossword Clue
• Knock down leader of legion roughly on march Crossword Clue
• Large plant in theatre entrance Crossword Clue
• Long to have gym outside home Crossword Clue
• Noise you heard: communications with one rowing Crossword Clue
• Novel English magazine's contents cut back Crossword Clue
• Obscure allusion picked up, getting harder to pick up Crossword Clue
• One ordered about ten cattle Crossword Clue
• Part of pin’s head turned up covered in glitter Crossword Clue
• Poet's wretched trouble with a single romance yarn Crossword Clue
• Politician dropping round, engaging a cup-bearer, say Crossword Clue
• Predator caught fabulous bird Crossword Clue
• Printing measures used in English manuscript Crossword Clue
• Produce more eggs, perhaps, than expenditure Crossword Clue
• Queen's partner’s stored knowledge is a minimal sham Crossword Clue
• Revolver originally used north of a NZ city Crossword Clue
• River keeping cool for convenience Crossword Clue
• Rubbish on-line about cruel figure in Labour Crossword Clue
• Rush to box quietly with learner in bout Crossword Clue
• Sign of eating too much toast suggested by this? Crossword Clue
• Sings about luxury car with middle missing! Crossword Clue
• Something in night sky seen in deserts to the west Crossword Clue
• State what usually keeps being reflected Crossword Clue
• Strip and rip off a French female's clothing Crossword Clue
• Teacher starts off shouting in room Crossword Clue
• Wintry weather in NSW: motors malfunctioning Crossword Clue
• Wise, perhaps, to have, on reflection, some in reserve Crossword Clue
• Writer has month to pen a work half-heartedly Crossword Clue