The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Wagging tail, one soon being cut off ISOLATION
A great number intended, we hear, to get plot for growing ALLOTMENT
A tree was rotting in brine SEAWATER
Big character in eg Belfast? CAPITAL
Emblem to carry over top of mountain TOTEM
Enemy destroyed one Arab native YEMENI
Foundation established by graduates coming to island BASIS
Miners get retrained as fighting units REGIMENTS
Old market's advertising poster's over entrance BILLINGSGATE
This chief is a male always AMEER
This Greek character is heard in sequence RHO
United at home triumphed, we understand IN ONE
Suffer consequences of poison gas at mine COP IT
Sound made by entry: one short ring LOGICAL
Self-assurance of reflective secretary shot up, minutes in APLOMB
Ribbons required for orb and sceptre BANDS
Pass fellow work note DONT ASK ME
Less experienced solvers no good, one hesitates to say? YOUNGER
Keep flat after pal unexpectedly leaves university PLATEAU
Jolly Yankee making pact TREATY
He for one must be supported by church and state PRONOUNCE
Find uniform by Thursday UNEARTH
Doctor’s offspring to press charges SURGEON
Diamond heads for royal head of monarch — belatedly RHOMB
Dad succeeded inflating tyre: delightful! PARADISAL
Place on board meeting for spells to sample eg Coronation on TV? coventry street
So upset, tolerated British dramatist OSBORNE
Sanction to fail to get up? NOTARISE
Richard is now shifting item of furniture Windsor chair
One business coming to a holiday island IBIZA
Male animal found by old character in shrub BUCKTHORN
Club’s founder has single out: a slow burner! PICKWICK
Meg’s elder sister in carriage turning red or white? RIOJA
One stops all owner-occupiers, presumably, adjusting ORIENTING