The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Brown’s old joke CHESTNUT
Camp clearing SETTLEMENT
CAR ATTENDANT ESCORT
Course records gaining award EPSOM
Extremely short, angular celebrity STAR
Few sense concern about press meetings news conferences
He lays slates, 50 in a row TILER
High liver from Central Tibet? Wrong IBEX
Hoover, say, setting me back about £25 EPONYM
King and knight in order losing heads for model EXEMPLAR
Papal letters bishop cut up BREVES
Plant one of many used in café french bean
Reportedly cold, long for one to supply wood CHILE PINE
Reporting from 2 maybe sinking beers during short trip JOURNALESE
Rodgers and Hart song: low, low number BLUE MOON
Station wagon, say, in race, overturned ESTATE CAR
SURPASS ALFRESCO PARTY OUTDO
Transport lots of collected works OMNIBUSES
Very loud, but ultimately quiet SOFT
Trivial insolence; quaint variety INCONSEQUENTIAL
A crime to send back racehorse MURDER
Award — ridicule also RIBAND
Craven cold war moves by Yankee COWARDLY
Eccentric person, one bearing greetings? CARD
Flaps from article appearing in illustrations PANICS
Herb, in charge of a building in Rome BASILICA
Instrument for blokes, oddly unused OBOE
Jewel I perhaps must change SAPPHIRE
Longed, desperately, to be prosperous GOLDEN
Look hard for missing English celebrity STAR
Part of egg may go all black, finally YOLK
Preserve a track for singer in cage? CANARY
Public officials love getting into awkward situations CORONERS
Rubs lady in need of massage, ridiculously ABSURDLY
Some fancy a new colour CYAN
That woman turned up in picture house HER
Tolerate hairstyle — one time! PERMIT
Twelve? I had nine initially in force MIDNIGHT
Unpoetic stuff about border plant PRIMROSE