The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 29

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Change position in pub, finding horizontal beam CROSSBAR
Conservative leader too old for media exposure COVERAGE
Eg Hannah’s daughter after friend in Italian city PALINDROME
Food for a friar TUCK
Give up fish for doughy pudding DUMPLING
I disclaim concealing songbird’s individuality IDENTITY
Irritable about party mostly — it’s a mockery TRAVESTY
Keenness more difficult for a Cockney, we hear? ARDOUR
Leak found by wise man swallowing tablet SPILLAGE
Maintain stronghold KEEP
One bound to succeed’s reported bearing HEIR
One overwhelmed by graduate’s prejudice BIAS
Part-song giving rise to impish enjoyment GLEE
Position of sculptures Epstein initially turned out STATUS
Price hotel fixed for air transport HELICOPTER
Restrain journalists overcome by drink? SUPPRESS
Vegetable found in vessel in dump TURNIP
Young creature Mike brought into research-room LAMB
Times covers revolutionary Iran in a sort of code BINARY
The story, in short: depressed, being fat TALLOW
Successor to Leo VI right to abdicate VIRGO
One’s not expected America to back British pronunciation to increase SURPRISE
It’s inhuman to black men needing a lift ROBOT
In team playing left half, powerful winger CASTLE
In election meeting Conservative on look out for Liberal to interrupt CONCLAVE
Function in series RUN
Dry chapter trimmed all round PARCHED
Dandy dropping Ecstasy is a failure DUD
Crime against ploughman reported in a flash SCINTILLA
Catch a husband, a smoker HOOKAH
Agree scam must get old police turning up CONCUR
Galloping Etruscan “horsemen” CENTAURS
Composer contributing to popular newsletter ARNE
Tramps on front of porch, one attracted by our neighbour PHOBOS
A tactic I deployed to find lake TITICACA
As a result of hard work cracked a new profession for ones pains
Don’t sack old city: keep it under your boot perhaps SPARE TYRE
Old poet all bones, lacking later energy SKELTON
Spare new driver always having to cover paper round LEFT OVER
Steal in? half-inch
Scotsman possibly crossing river in Asian republic IRAN