The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Bachelor for example in group sat date out POSTGRADUATE
Bee, one going after doctor DRONE
Big cougar originally aboard ship, wild feline BOBCAT
Dispenser taking lid off medicine, one put in box CHEMIST
Drink, dad? POP
Drugs cartel rotten, end conversation RING OFF
Female animal, deer or elk, primarily DOE
Found again, divorcee's red pants REDISCOVERED
Fragrance appalling to wearers rose-water
Gelatinous substance again missing in recipe, initially AGAR
Get rid of container SACK
Gone, a shell or bow, say? PASTA
Los Angeles police operation impossible to forget LASTING
Many sketches needing no introduction OODLES
My rapid changes, solid PYRAMID
Passage I seal off AISLE
Rubbish on rig ending in large skip IGNORE
Supportive material, strong STRAPPING
Surprising grade in, so impressive GRANDIOSE
Tool spied SAW
Current offering PRESENT
Where to get a taxi from station RANK
The main hazard for an experimental composer BERG
Staff admitted to wearing priestly garments in capitalist organisations investment clubs
One providing rapid delivery of dish received by person who won't eat it? fast bowler
Madame Bovary is a classic novel EMMA
Letters penned by dilettante, a lazy dabbler TEAL
Italian merchant's donation, wanting day off ANTONIO
Harry Potter in film's premiere creating revenue NET PROFIT
E.g. TikTok star is awfully cruel, not primarily fine INFLUENCER
Doughty United supporter backing attack UNAFRAID
Comment made when contemptuous lout grabs bishop yah-boo
Brushing off one good impediment to marriage proposal? IGNORING
Bad attitude, say, during Christmas scene NEGATIVITY
Ambassador having pretentious tendencies is jovial HEARTY
After selling out, what shopkeeper's doing about legwear RESTOCKING
Golden Age Hollywood actress to tear tabloid up GARDNER
Maybe Brummie lad badly nursed by nanny midlander
Novelist's desperate, lacking time and energy to break into television TURGENEV
New shirt and tie back on heater, drier THIRSTIER