The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A change in how much beer you drink? About time! ALTERATION
A sub reportedly abandoned ALONE
Advocate coppers should have jurisdiction PREACH
Ban for wielder of a quill? PROSCRIBE
Call English knight “señor” in Spain? ENTITLE
Classmate ultimately failing to pass ELAPSE
Cracking crime coming first in mountain region SINAI
End of transition leaving you undecided? TORN
English banker getting axed — or estate manager? EXECUTOR
Fixed payment sees writers hit back PENSION
Force chaps to infiltrate second corporation MOMENTUM
Force offering amnesty from time to time MET
Less of a shock for one leaving here? BARBERS
MI6 in a position to provide support ASSISTANCE
Musical dramas back to back, merging in effect OPERATIVE
Released, being old and almost completely useless EXEMPT
Set aside steel to be carried by European vessel EARMARK
This might make painter tell a tale YARN
Troubled Euripides endlessly praying here? prie-dieu
Vulnerable Cockney’s safe and sound UNARMED
Bout follows live match BEFIT
Disapproved of cheers? The opposite! TABOO
Disturbance over waiter’s tip, followed by row UPROAR
Expert’s characteristic, confrontational position FACE TO FACE
Festival queen, depressed, finding comfort in retirement EIDERDOWN
For physicist, a very disastrous error having a doctor round AVOGADRO
Four German couples appearing at end of Huckleberry Finn? YACHT
Had food finally landed in appropriate place, at long last? BELATEDLY
Henry returning to pay in haste HOTFOOT
Incorrect statement about Disney character, about right for tycoon? PLUTOCRAT
Kid is very loud after tea CHAFF
Musical works tell a story, radical on reflection LIEDER
Nonsense about basic fitness of course good reason for scepticism CREDIBILITY GAP
Object after husband’s made track difficult TRYING
Old dictator seeing money accrued after election is endless pol pot
Old firm keeping tax returns in book OCTAVO
Old monk’s high point joining order BENEDICT
Old-fashioned daughter walked on over RETROD
One going left hot drink close to pram: naughty! IMPISH
Put back a class of biblical scholars? RESET
Report of case for Oxonian: E Morse? on dit
Shrink understood Leo — only for so long toodle-oo
Sound disapproving note about one franc confection Tutti Frutti
Stony ridge linked to football training BANKRUPT
Stud resembling star affixed to cape CASANOVA
Suffering from cold several times bonfires must be built FROSTBITTEN
Thus overlooked, boy did play, strangely ODDLY
Titled lord, frightfully musical! dr dolittle
University fellow stretched, evidently, to a higher level UPHILL
Very young infants have small playgroup, independently under ones own steam
What bishops may grasp about different men CROOKS
What you see before eruption upset island paradise AVALON
Wide river: manage to cross it in pain far-reaching
Wind got of husband’s casual reference to couple? MEANDER