The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 13

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