The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 06 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Muscles displayed by four dozen rugby players six-packs
Going back, pinch small brooch PIN
Account to employ for press charges ACCUSE
Kilometre trails go from suburbs, always ending in city OMSK
Governing rule college head’s spoken of PRINCIPLE
Drop jokes etc, almost all personal COMEDOWN
Reveal cricketer has time for golf let slip
Least intelligent pupil previously useless in exam OBTUSEST
Perhaps stream TV station CHANNEL
Line in dossier FILE
Thinking dear former partner has departed PENSIVE
Sealed informal refusal to stop nude rambling UNOPENED
Multicoloured trousers a boy took off PARODIED
Moslem, I hesitate to say, is more cheerful SUNNIER
Sound made by small hole in bucket POUR
Note small car on motorway MINIM
Net inside moat shifts accumulated mud SEDIMENTATION
What might ring old fortified site beside a river in Africa CAMPANILE
Need a key to set loose helpless viewer NAKED EYE
One turned agonisingly from gang after attempts to get picked up THUMBSCREW
Wandering snail died in area surrounded by water ISLAND
Trouble experienced when returning garden plant DAHLIA
Feed to excess ignoring large stomach GUT
Outstanding round part of plane OWING
Skin blemish to be somehow acceptable, we note down here? POCKETBOOK
Sticking poster chap has torn ADHERENT
Message of note by journalist’s ending TEXT
Appear to have finished scan look over
Wine increased in value ROSE
Robot car running round to man AUTOMATON
Returning explorer in charge of filling ship: a cutter SCISSORS
One’s certainly not quietly reflecting — give time to? IMPRISON
Going down hard, object’s losing height SETTING
He passed on one note out of habit? OBSOLETE
Residue from burning tree ASH
Fur of decapitated rats, perhaps eastern ERMINE
Difficult keeping old squirrel away HOARD
Island’s legal system blocking appeals by one SULAWESI
Summit ending for Noah and boat HEIGHT
Popular expectation, ultimately wild all round, is confounded INFERNAL
I would catch cold: never again? ONCE