The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 14

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Dim seabird flying around wedding participant BRIDESMAID
Fake swamp near America BOGUS
Flier featuring chess piece and chess player, we hear? KINGFISHER
Kitchen implement alas put in a stew SPATULA
Last bit is removed from aircraft design PLAN
Leftover lira used carelessly RESIDUAL
More masculine merchant BUTCHER
Place where officers eat pickle MESS
Sat around hugging old partner in US state TEXAS
Small dishes of baked pasta TAPAS
Teach Europeans to hide old gold coin EDUCATE
Try out some concrete structures TEST
Dairy product initially of great help in tent YOGHURT
Crazy to discard small piece of fruit BANANA
Complain and drink, reportedly WHINE
Clumsily enacts mountaineering objective ASCENT
Astronaut's gear made from second rate diamonds, say SPACESUIT
Arctic homes initially interest grand ladies and gents IGLOOS
Those who catch rabbits, heading off after November NABBERS
Theatre permitted audience finally full REPLETE
Sport, one a few find boring WEARISOME
Small set of wheels carried on a cycle RUNAROUND
Like newsprint to be profitable, protecting salesperson’s turnover PAPERY
Intermediate stage completed after being put back a year PUPA
Expressed frustration as small, hard blocks carelessly handled PSHAWED
Endless Burgundy in green bottles UNDYING
Carry off old drunk? WINO
Stars kind to plug Sinatra classic? MILKY WAY
Fuddy-duddy leaving to prepare for a fight SQUARE OFF
Am prone to abuse: I take it all back! REPOMAN
Compile hit clue for cracking sort of quiz! multiple-choice
Old railway porter’s maybe succeeded in freeing chest? BRALESS
Sort of cake you quietly consume after eleven? upside-down