The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 03 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Demanding deep study on behalf of institute PROFOUND
Dragon exhausted eating queen quite recently SERPENT
Fine item’s not quite finished THIN
Food Molly Malone sells she will char? SHELLFISH
Worker missing high point in stage work OPERA
Suggest liqueur is lacking a bit of excitement ADVOCATE
Successful student receiving new piano GRAND
Subsequently less sensible, losing head AFTER
ONLY FAIR JUST
Naive admission of older age IMMATURE
BASEBALL PLAYER IN JUG PITCHER
Soldiers being very foolish (not British) ARMY
What coiner produces — good simoleon in counterfeit form NEOLOGISM
Typical guest unable to be regularly ignored USUAL
Go off assignation outside school DETONATE
Still turn up, very lost INERT
Delighted to do work cleaning Mediterranean CHARMED
Single line by individual LONE
Party — our group — beginning to resist payment for union DOWER
Parody of East German leaving Central American country somehow true CARICATURE
A hepcat? It is awful cool APATHETIC
Holiday worker lacking occupation VACANT
Miser’s personality recalled after vicious creatures returned SCROOGE
Large number upset after US detective produces weapon PISTOL
Isolated state of country after a deception ALIENATION
Greedy person — upset of course WOLF
Gentle touch on posterior? Punched by female, a pioneering spirit PATHFINDER
Garden worker adopting couple of articles separately as protection from sun? HEADGEAR
Los Angeles motorway hit hard LAM
Soldiers had an impact in area of operations ORBIT
Delighted song No. 1 in Estonia, in conclusion ENCHANTED
Dampen sound of activity? I’d provided way, ultimately HUMIDIFY
Become expert in microwave device, having invested time MASTER
Trainee acted strangely CADET
Opening in chess later had revised place for bishop CATHEDRAL
On leaving, marks time? HOURS
What’s cured sleeper KIPPER
Mostly Spanish city girl’s song MADRIGAL
Notes area of boggy ground MIRE
Suspect male reader is one into fantasy DREAMER
Incident is occurring in recording poem EPISODE
Fruit drink company’s rise covered by a volume AVOCADOS
Film director joined ranks, heading for immortality FELLINI