The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Celebrities: one missing from flight STARS
Entice to remove head — one head — resulting in vacancy EMPTINESS
Bands having bunk on board steamship STRIPES
As good as a mile out? AMISS
Lift beams when speaking RAISE
Add up pennies spent finally: you love us to be extravagant SUMPTUOUS
Accepted standard of most of section PAR
Tsar shot certainly in error ASTRAY
Leave out Bard’s title role when mounted in reduced form? OMIT
Front runners in shock photo finish paying out SPENDING
Drug check protecting friendly community and its environment ECOSYSTEM
Dog bound to be supported by queen SPRINGER
Sharpness about tungsten guitar string’s sound TWANG
Client is against a girl returning VASSAL
See you master lingo finally ready for Italy? EURO
Church follows New Testament about Old Nick NOTCH
Prudent to pursue universal employment USAGE
Assents in reforming offensive nature NASTINESS
Broadcast now so faint SWOON
I’m possibly 50cc, two wheels — try me! MOTORCYCLE
In note, mistake saints for violent criminals TERRORISTS
Almost convinced about old tart SOUR
Claim during trial about English Republican INTEREST
Make bigger penny loaf: regret missing odd bits ENLARGE
Card box for footwear SHOE
Small donkey runs: one’s puffing? SMOKER
Anticyclone arrives in Scots region HIGHLANDS
Striking unconscious OUT
Trouble one is going to ILL
Fruit began going off in truck LOGANBERRY
Baseball fielder and items he wears when running? SHORTSTOP
Point about unique selling point CUSP
Plot after papa gets fresh Covid variant sans name in lab exposure? photomicrograph
Peak adding singular note to hat CAPSTONE
Concertgoer taking in good artist, one who shapes concert PROGRAMMER
People of a similar age in one great movement GENERATION
Carved figure from galley regularly about years after long-dead ship GARGOYLE
Somewhere to hide from awfully scary aunt SANCTUARY
Neckwear brightly coloured like a wedding cake? TIERED