The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 07 03

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Netting son installed in border going west MESH
Extended opus rated badly OUTSPREAD
Foremost record of year disposing of duke’s animal book BESTIARY
Wedding participants carrying grand crosses BRIDGES
One interrogating angry ex, a pitman? cross-examiner
Male artist crossing a bar for a dance in Cuba HABANERA
Way you initially cross an underworld river STYX
Numbers upset after eating one vegetable ONION
Mostly support quantity of gold for gambling game BACCARAT
Midshipman Easy’s head used in advert REEFER
What a scrounger may do to get cake SPONGE
Award most agreeable old canon set up BESTOWAL
Lived in comfort briefly in outskirts of Detroit DWELT
Part of speech never bettered, but only part VERB
A large tree growing in European mountains ALPINE
Demonstration, not heading for top of building ROOF
Bird westerners originally precooked, unexpectedly WOODPECKER
Military unit cheers celebrity joining club BATTALION
Articles digested by obsessive animal minder NEATHERD
Vagrant bowled over by house HOBO
Contemptible centre of operations BASE
Defeat wife going on about steering apparatus OVERWHELM
Movement in water of peacock, say, by river in Staffs city butterfly stroke
Very good soup I cooked PIOUS
Save container king left out for wine BARSAC
Happiness initially is only for so long CHEERIO
Free fight in horse’s compartment LOOSEBOX
Prickly plant originally trapping antler, perhaps THORN
Rest arrive briefly for TV programme SITCOM
Impartial peacekeepers stationed around India UNBIASED
Important judge participating in climbing range MAJOR
It may include shells — from Brixham mostly AMMO
Style of singing at our carol broadcast? COLORATURA
Vision certainly possessed by rowing squad EYESIGHT
Hurry back to celebrate caring vocation NURSING
Undemanding force in English stronghold changing sides EFFORTLESS
Endlessly regretting introduction to such decayed buildings RUINS
One out of condition is losing heart UNIT
Handy skill imitated by Rex, somehow AMBIDEXTERITY
Necklace identified in lecture on radio TORC
Expression of surprise over US soldier’s dog CORGI
Specialist to strain to restrict power EXPERT
Farm animals reportedly damaged a career in affluent zone? stockbroker belt
Quantity of statistical data, initially sufficient AMPLE
Intelligence required to frame right legal document WRIT