The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Most awful French art covered in muck DIREST
Classical female appearing in select range ELECTRA
Nectar-seeking flier from group of Noctuidae TUI
A parliamentary session ends initially in recess APSE
Friendly greeting from rural workers around Lima PLEASANTRY
Rebuke clubs requiring mask CHIDE
Those actively promoting speed route for fast jumping? HYPERSPACE
Reliable writer, I have written about French cinematographer AUTHORITATIVE
Deposed empress volunteers to ingest poison TSARINA
Japanese money had for governing body SENATE
Bomb around large weapon FLAIL
Gang somewhere in Cheshire, we hear CREW
Second-year student hopes room is free SOPHOMORE
Hack chasing lead on cricket champ CHEW
A writer's absorbing article BLOTTING PAPER
Brought up to hide pain, being violated BREACHED
Panelling succeeds around a small bed WAINSCOT
Painter and inventor in Italy's capital BELLINI
Sample latest of paintings in gallery TASTE
Depend on artist? Hardly RARELY
Victorian writer reported disreputable female TROLLOP
A fraud I am after, alternatively IMPOSTOR
Nearly miss one car reversing, tending to obstruct INIMICAL
Cut flower short SEVER
Misrepresent volume editor over a text from antiquity rig-veda
Maybe Spanish folks and Russians, heading off IBERIANS
Warning a tool is wasting energy ADVICE
Supply to last, right away ENDUE
Member of choir is b---- fool BASS
See first of keels in pound going up or down on canal LOCKAGE
First in class, little Andrew is sweet CANDY
Republican brought up to corruption ROT
Gloria's unusual gem GIRASOL
It bans a clinic under reconstruction taking in people? CANNIBALISTIC
Type of apple no good, nearly all Asian rootstock for cooking GALANGAL
Hypocrisy accepted by one country for a spell INCANTATION
Introduction to Fritz Lang and Mabuse’s last projection FLANGE