Mirror Cryptic Crossword December 17 2022 Answers

ACROSS

• Rash spreads, quietly acute
  SHARP
• Room to put old instrument
  CELLO
• Stroke is strangely apt
  PAT
• America has time for employment
  USAGE
• Transform later, possibly
  ALTER
• Nod back at academic
  DON
• Animal gives party energy
  DOE
• Woman from Esher
  SHE
• Confused a year with a shorter time
  DAY
• Cute small delicacies
  SWEETS
• Ties up venue
  SITE
• Pleased with simplicity
  EASE
• London flower?
  THAMES
• Venerable fool definitely has it
  OLD
• Number of schooners
  ONE
• Perched during conversation
  SAT
• Drama about livestock
  RAM
• All characters by river are blue
  AZURE
• Aware of later development
  ALERT
• People of Armenia
  MEN
• Keen to agree to change
  EAGER
• We sat around – hard work
  SWEAT

DOWN

• Implements found in suit
  SPADES
• Harold has nothing but light
  HALO
• Declare at cricket game
  ATTEST
• Super sort of wallet
  PURSE
• Recruit acted strangely
  CADET
• The golfer’s conceit
  EGO
• Loan left to finish
  LEND
• Just round city, taking left
  ONLY
• Hard to name new beefcake
  HEMAN
• Animal in glasses
  ASS
• Drenched in raw ethanol
  WET
• Regard for diocese
  SEE
• Sick of villagers
  ILL
• Take on a variety of muses
  ASSUME
• Scope of former shelter
  EXTENT
• Simpson’s writer?
  HOMER
• Encounters report on beef and pork, say
  MEATS
• Formerly in concert
  ONCE
• Main road is a nuisance
  DRAG
• Part of the Far East
  AREA
• Talented with a drink
  ALE