The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 06 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Broadcast famous cook showing how eggs may be prepared BEATEN
Gift’s here PRESENT
Laceration made by small whip SLASH
Spicy offering of Mississippi canteen PICANTE
Volume of reduced car parking by a large town CAPACITY
Old socialist investors installing new leader ENGELS
Hesitation about The Guardian’s benefits REWARDS
A tight fit for one’s inamorata SQUEEZE
Soldiers watch over protective gear PARASOL
Irish county’s lake borne in mind CLARE
Become exhausted and leave quickly RUN OUT
Stays on boat to welcome grand head of state LINGERS
Current row about check making you increasingly impatient ITCHIER
Typical of a backbencher perhaps REPRESENTATIVE
A cabinet member covering up daughter’s conduct ADMINISTER
Record of Spooner’s instruction to beat up chef cash-book
Secretive and quiet, grabbing duck and coot’s tail STEALTHY
Decline leadership to shock constituency TAKE A BACK SEAT
Avenge bombing in Swiss location GENEVA
Harvest queen captured by Constable CROP
Device for measuring minutes in a row TIMER
Permit union organisation before everyone finally leaves LETTUCE
Giant gun at Agra destroyed GARGANTUA
Teachers inhaling crack, source of comfort in retirement? BEDSOCKS
Individual imitates backsliding judge SEPARATE
Electrical engineer’s shocking tales TESLA
Unfinished letter once appearing in The Thunderer? THOR
Broken internet meant making up leisure activities ENTERTAINMENT
Norma, perhaps, gets a rope tangled OPERA
Charm of some French antiques ENCHANT
Latest article in Le Monde providing biased view SPUN
Unintroduced lout on Panorama? That’s disgusting! OBSCENE
Irascible, like privileged American? WASPISH
Unknown mix of people deprived of oxygen in airship ZEPPELIN
Buddhist school at foot of mountain first to extract hydrocarbon BENZENE
The reason to drink last of horrible watery residue WHEY
Doctor abridged column for her stand-in? LOCUM
Papa left us a sign PLUS
Back-to-back refusals for a time NOON
A poor kipper INSOMNIAC
Signal change in atmosphere, temperature dropping SEMAPHORE
Doctors backing a new locum for training — and a new paramedic ambulancewoman