The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Rotters holding right means of payment CARDS
Regret statute getting left out RUE
Recalled part of great Cabaret performance ACT
Poems following college worlds UNIVERSES
Leader of talented lasses knitted ornamental hangings TASSELS
Hooter sound one's missing NOSE
Heads of bespoke English fashion industry tailoring suit BEFIT
Fragile small boat TENDER
Famous studies hiding criminal DISTINGUISHED
Examines small tins SCANS
Sends on rugby players FORWARDS
Speaker's entirely boring object AWL
Sheepish expert taken in by counterfeit notes SHAMEFACED
Stop chorus REFRAIN
Threw ground around low plants UNDERGROWTH
Car going around curve ARC
Looker's twitching after surgical procedure OPTIC
Isolated as Man United? ALONE
Thread from sack catching tip of briar FIBRE
Way to heave and extend STRETCH
House man's inside to find reference work THESAURUS
Understatement no mature person prevaricates about LITOTES
Game up in Italian river, endlessly deep POLO
Port sacked in Ottoman push SOUTHAMPTON
Party member to avoid leader of Greens? There's benefit DOLE
Articles presented in trifling taste for numskull FATHEAD
Second goal brings delight SEND
Luxurious establishment on Piccadilly — it's a cracker RITZ
Unfairness of popular union INEQUITY
Cut down time in beach cabin at last SHORTEN
Cut back pit work testing EXAMINING
Impresario after concert books Queen PROMOTER
Bird heading briefly over rescue vessel TITLARK
Hurt in match, leaves boxing TEA CHEST
Guinness maybe brought round, second one and last? STICK IT OUT
Award's military one churchyard elegist accepts GRAMMY