The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Sheepish expert taken in by counterfeit notes SHAMEFACED
Game up in Italian river, endlessly deep POLO
Poems following college worlds UNIVERSES
Looker's twitching after surgical procedure OPTIC
Bird heading briefly over rescue vessel TITLARK
Fragile small boat TENDER
Regret statute getting left out RUE
Luxurious establishment on Piccadilly — it's a cracker RITZ
Understatement no mature person prevaricates about LITOTES
Recalled part of great Cabaret performance ACT
Port sacked in Ottoman push SOUTHAMPTON
Second goal brings delight SEND
Way to heave and extend STRETCH
Leader of talented lasses knitted ornamental hangings TASSELS
Award's military one churchyard elegist accepts GRAMMY
Threw ground around low plants UNDERGROWTH
Cut back pit work testing EXAMINING
Heads of bespoke English fashion industry tailoring suit BEFIT
Cut down time in beach cabin at last SHORTEN
House man's inside to find reference work THESAURUS
Rotters holding right means of payment CARDS
Hurt in match, leaves boxing TEA CHEST
Thread from sack catching tip of briar FIBRE
Impresario after concert books Queen PROMOTER
Car going around curve ARC
Unfairness of popular union INEQUITY
Hooter sound one's missing NOSE
Party member to avoid leader of Greens? There's benefit DOLE
Articles presented in trifling taste for numskull FATHEAD
Isolated as Man United? ALONE
Examines small tins SCANS
Famous studies hiding criminal DISTINGUISHED
Sends on rugby players FORWARDS
Speaker's entirely boring object AWL
Stop chorus REFRAIN
Guinness maybe brought round, second one and last? STICK IT OUT