The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 06 14

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Batty at heart to protect trees initially AT FIRST
Get to give a sermon, being initially denied REACH
Determined soldier standing behind a barrier ADAMANT
Curate’s beginning to manage church — a critical moment CRUNCH
Crude oil initially featuring in vehicle’s energy COARSE
Pull up after intervention of University security officer GUARD
Sailor cheers end of tour TAR
Seems put out, agitated, wild TEMPESTUOUS
Close to fastening negligee NIGHTIE
Snapshot capturing final manmade material PLASTIC
Being moral is remarkably un-piratical PURITANICAL
Irish city’s sailors providing bottle opener CORKSCREW
Are French invading armies a provider of entertainment? HOSTESS
Shortly drunk outside English pub HOSTELRY
Scent hard work writing out a verse TRAIL
Strange fiction in article ALIEN
Small lock and key finally oiled? SQUIFFY
Prevent crime writer dropping The Times DETER
Pretentious type of word common in Old Norse OVERBLOWN
Messing about on or close to barge sure is wrong ERRONEOUS
Is jazz band mostly rubbish in engagement upset? DISCOMBOBULATE
Inappropriate French article and a couple from Italy UNDUE
Not far off, having shaken off an old boy SON
Number wait, losing heart, for legal official NOTARY
Opening paint-roller, removing wrapping INTRO
Colour of apple shown by Monet? LEMON
Understand time, for example, after reflection GET
Chorus splits regarding key PART SONG
Certainly not Falstaff for Thursday evening perhaps WEEKNIGHT
Herb died diseased DILL
Cut of beef’s fine — or Brie crackers FORERIB
Show weariness, encountering a long tale SAGA
Silly wind-up does upset upside down
Silk Road city — a spot in desert? SAMARKAND
Right work in hospital department in charge of rising disorder? ENTROPIC
Prince introducing odd extracts from Yemeni songbook HYMNAL
I want you to understand it may be men got Ted DONT GET ME WRONG
Collector of food in aid of increasingly old person FORAGER
Flower I planted in weedless ground EDELWEISS