The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Drop back for vapid chatter GAS
Employ software and play regularly APPLY
Finding opera composer extremely competent VERDICT
First of convicts to join prison CLINK
Homework zone, not quite ready PREPARE
In loo, Irish terrier CAIRN
Join up, unusually silent ENLIST
Knead right inside pan WORK
Number one zoo employee? KEEPER
Plot singular right-wing policy STORYLINE
Records attempt to create wall hanging TAPESTRY
Secretive about good play’s ending CAGY
Singers messed up entry INGRESS
Taxes coral islands, but not at first TOLLS
Translate name into prettier version INTERPRET
Confessed about pair helped to escape from prison SPRANG
The female Aphrodite’s foremost goddess HERA
Prosecute a criminal in remote region outer space
Produce missing western God ARES
One getting a hand in time as tradesman EAST
Main opener for Middlesex and Derby — and team-mate seam bowler
King taking control, going outside limits of monarchical government KREMLIN
International player’s mood, finding peak CAPSTONE
Good point raised about English commercials being intractable HEADSTRONG
Four articles about origin of millennial curse ANATHEMA
Expression of indifference about son’s entanglement MESH
European artist brought in to blend green EMERALD
Dry rocks amongst loot? Discuss ditching odd bits for study of fluids HYDRAULICS
Come to a track left by any number AWAKEN
Chicken stew: backed everyone getting a lot in E London PAELLA
Change arrangement to include introduction of clarinet, a wind instrument RECORDER
Catchy tune not entirely popular, right? HOOK
Absurd tilt noticed COCKEYED
Flowers: one comes up IRISES