The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A boy given time becomes VIP PERSONAGE
Bird losing tail, pinned down by wood and stone ASHLAR
Black farm building time's forgotten SABLE
Duck is some swimmer, seriously! IMMERSE
Forswearing group full of English hypocrisy RECANTING
Ignore heartless nut spouting gas NITROGEN
Married woman or country boy featured in curse MALISON
Officer studies information schematically presented CONSTABLE
One church had to be decorated ICED
Payment slashed? RENT
Remarkable chum hugging female and old blokes PHENOMENAL
Solitary advance amount of cash reported LONESOME
Trade ad is out to catch people ultimately, offering essential items? DESIDERATA
A court beset by a hundred and one plants CACTI
Talent is to blaze up, it’s said FLAIR
Sulphur, key preservative SALT
Wrongly declare failure on mountain-top MISSPEAK
Singular bravery, dismissing a source of torment SCOURGE
Prime tree replaced in boundary PERIMETER
One avoiding online film villain? EVADER
Lover is cooler FAN
Look attentively over small opening PORE
Knocking out fine ladies’ jewellery? FLOORING
Honours ultimately desirable, carrying a lot of weight OBESE
Given leave, people miss circulating, a reaction to cold goose pimples
Publicity bod hurried round about and was successful PROSPERED
Problem gripping Rex in a state SURINAM
Comrade’s rewritten middle of lecture for US politician DEMOCRAT
Clever remark in annual test MOT
Champion on board is superficial SURFACE
Carry Ecstasy into pub BEAR
A bishop, dispatched, is missing ABSENT
Pair winning almost immediately? PRONTO
Old piano delivered before time for stage performance OPERA
Fellow consuming cold mineral MACLE
A revolutionary socialist restricts fair person who'd make small changes ADJUSTER
What makes Oxford look bright? SHOESHINE
Series of deliveries managed but took too long OVERRAN
Such keys perhaps best left in cupboards? SKELETONS
Eagerly take in being a whole circuit ahead LAP UP
Debt collector needs security, if female BAILIFF