The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Expel leaders of our university skiing team OUST
Final piece of plastic LAST
Finally invent rationale for betrayal TREASON
Look intently around river and eat grass GRAZE
Low-risk snack for burglar? safe-cracker
Pinched scarf close to town STOLEN
Prison beginning to concern couple CLINK
Recall computers making racket SCAM
Require some gene editing NEED
A little gale blowing around some pasta TAGLIATELLE
Unusual form of capital Y ATYPICAL
The up platform? crows nest
Pictures about one American pope pius ix
Old Lionheart spitting out one fruit here ORCHARD
Madly busy chap I see talking MANIC
Limit a territory parrot is kept in IMITATE
Morale so bad in auction house SALEROOM
On publication day, beer at New College MAGDALEN
Express disappointment in feeble books LAMENT
Devoutly hopes to hear appreciative remarks PRAYS
Couple like party not to end? Time I’m going ASSOCIATE
Cocktail to pick up at lunchtime perhaps reluctantly at first, a small quantity MARGARITA
Promoted, work was satisfying — returned lively! up-tempo
Protest's purpose OBJECT
Period charm SPELL
Once omit weird digital symbol EMOTICON
Mark almost excessively drunk BLOTTO
Cry from a sled — space for fungus? MUSHROOM
Beat up cop in lift for Tarantino film PULP FICTION
Animal seen regularly in Aztec burial ZEBRA
Hate Hobart, shivering when temperature drops ABHOR
Assume one is in position POSIT
Girl abandoned opera part, close to return ARIADNE
A female tennis ace ASHE