The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 07 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Run off incline, changing direction at first ELOPE
Scorpion? A sudden sally will protect chief, note ARACHNID
Society rebuffed my fake orchestral piece SYMPHONY
Summon Bishop and judge to depose King BECKON
Unexpectedly needing a forte — or even louder? DEAFENING
Black bird crossing a cape to find Polish city CRACOW
Depression: it is a medical condition COLITIS
Dog used for experiments? LAB
Drills are so dull BORING
Early seventies hit some play last LAYLA
Extra repeats becoming so long bye-bye
Football club has rushed in European currency FRANC
Greedy person at cup match producing hamper HOGTIE
One used to hang back in game so one-sided NOOSE
Pacific islander volunteers to strike Scotsman perhaps TAHITIAN
Place to eat hash? MESS
Taunted, after time, relaxed TEASED
Uncultivated — but you might pick up Oscar? WILD
EXCELLENT PUNISHMENT FINE
Proposition left a married French woman taken aback LEMMA
Obstruction, wide, first to last leading to jam ROADBLOCK
Naval area upset about member of US military offering protection AEGIS
Mostly underhand offer? SUBMIT
Man, after one day, displaying specific way of speaking IDIOM
Male embraced by lover not entirely a source of religious inspiration SWAMI
Initially tense year after Asian island suppresses routine violence BRUTALITY
Form of AI no longer fresh, surely lacking core support expert system
Drank foolishly after a lot of narcotic, did one? DRUNKARD
Dead — hanged in awfully secret plan HIDDEN AGENDA
Cut back openings for computing trainees? Absolutely right EXACT
Cosmetic treatment transforming pert and saucy girls plastic surgery
Be part of a lot of work I put into pub join in
Arrange peace after lab site vandalised ESTABLISH
Time to embrace ruffian THUG
Male set up by antihero in fiction GATSBY
Sort of bread to consume, when outside WHEATEN
Producer of notes and letters from abroad in charge of fight music box
People staying up late, close to Wales, oddly night owls
Clue man’s worked out for “America” UNCLE SAM
Standing behind stuff inside motorway shop filling station
Exclamation of annoyance about two different names given to a swordsman DARTAGNAN