The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Entice to remove head — one head — resulting in vacancy EMPTINESS
As good as a mile out? AMISS
Tsar shot certainly in error ASTRAY
Sharpness about tungsten guitar string’s sound TWANG
See you master lingo finally ready for Italy? EURO
I’m possibly 50cc, two wheels — try me! MOTORCYCLE
Celebrities: one missing from flight STARS
Bands having bunk on board steamship STRIPES
Leave out Bard’s title role when mounted in reduced form? OMIT
Front runners in shock photo finish paying out SPENDING
Assents in reforming offensive nature NASTINESS
Add up pennies spent finally: you love us to be extravagant SUMPTUOUS
Accepted standard of most of section PAR
Client is against a girl returning VASSAL
Lift beams when speaking RAISE
Plot after papa gets fresh Covid variant sans name in lab exposure? photomicrograph
Peak adding singular note to hat CAPSTONE
Drug check protecting friendly community and its environment ECOSYSTEM
Broadcast now so faint SWOON
Dog bound to be supported by queen SPRINGER
In note, mistake saints for violent criminals TERRORISTS
Almost convinced about old tart SOUR
Make bigger penny loaf: regret missing odd bits ENLARGE
Prudent to pursue universal employment USAGE
Point about unique selling point CUSP
Carved figure from galley regularly about years after long-dead ship GARGOYLE
Somewhere to hide from awfully scary aunt SANCTUARY
Striking unconscious OUT
Fruit began going off in truck LOGANBERRY
Trouble one is going to ILL
Card box for footwear SHOE
Concertgoer taking in good artist, one who shapes concert PROGRAMMER
Claim during trial about English Republican INTEREST
Church follows New Testament about Old Nick NOTCH
Small donkey runs: one’s puffing? SMOKER
Baseball fielder and items he wears when running? SHORTSTOP
Anticyclone arrives in Scots region HIGHLANDS
People of a similar age in one great movement GENERATION
Neckwear brightly coloured like a wedding cake? TIERED