The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Knocking out fine ladies’ jewellery? FLOORING
Old piano delivered before time for stage performance OPERA
Officer studies information schematically presented CONSTABLE
Wrongly declare failure on mountain-top MISSPEAK
A boy given time becomes VIP PERSONAGE
Remarkable chum hugging female and old blokes PHENOMENAL
Honours ultimately desirable, carrying a lot of weight OBESE
Look attentively over small opening PORE
Singular bravery, dismissing a source of torment SCOURGE
Fellow consuming cold mineral MACLE
What makes Oxford look bright? SHOESHINE
Black farm building time's forgotten SABLE
Solitary advance amount of cash reported LONESOME
One avoiding online film villain? EVADER
Clever remark in annual test MOT
Problem gripping Rex in a state SURINAM
Duck is some swimmer, seriously! IMMERSE
Carry Ecstasy into pub BEAR
Ignore heartless nut spouting gas NITROGEN
Sulphur, key preservative SALT
Comrade’s rewritten middle of lecture for US politician DEMOCRAT
Champion on board is superficial SURFACE
One church had to be decorated ICED
Lover is cooler FAN
Pair winning almost immediately? PRONTO
A bishop, dispatched, is missing ABSENT
Bird losing tail, pinned down by wood and stone ASHLAR
A revolutionary socialist restricts fair person who'd make small changes ADJUSTER
Talent is to blaze up, it’s said FLAIR
Such keys perhaps best left in cupboards? SKELETONS
Debt collector needs security, if female BAILIFF
Payment slashed? RENT
Prime tree replaced in boundary PERIMETER
Publicity bod hurried round about and was successful PROSPERED
Forswearing group full of English hypocrisy RECANTING
Series of deliveries managed but took too long OVERRAN
Given leave, people miss circulating, a reaction to cold goose pimples
Married woman or country boy featured in curse MALISON
A court beset by a hundred and one plants CACTI
Trade ad is out to catch people ultimately, offering essential items? DESIDERATA
Eagerly take in being a whole circuit ahead LAP UP