The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1580 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1580 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Sole broken by hard beach stones	SHINGLE
Son isn’t a good man	SAINT
Songbird’s quiet after American’s finished	THRUSH
Sort of blue extreme Republican in New England state	ULTRAMARINE
Stab at one by going mad	BAYONET
Stock English joke	EQUIP
Strangely put into uncommon ecstasy	RAPTURE
Stumbles around beach regularly twisting muscle	TRICEPS
Supply a learner driver that’s qualified	PROVISIONAL
Textile worker set up in Surrey docks	DYER
What reduces impact of broadcast carrier	air bag
Where huskies may be used to decorate hat	ICECAP

Clues	Answers
Awfully big lie — one fired with yen for fitness	ELIGIBILITY
Bloodsucking insect’s low around sierra desert	MOSQUITO
Cheapest way to travel is always poetically in coach	STEERAGE
Church ceremony set down on paper for reading out	RITE
Four cardinals making the headlines	NEWS
I had sex appeal to ensnare old fool	IDIOT
Jumper displayed in foie gras shop, perhaps	GRASSHOPPER
Millions beg for protective cover	MASK
One minding children of girl in New York	NANNY
One who praises figures I work on some time afterwards	IDOLATER
One who’ll stage a play and record it when running	DIRECTOR
Perhaps sexist one when in bed	BIASED