The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Dropped subject, as not known initially SANK
English article, genuine, and spiritual ETHEREAL
Fashionable star seen idly removing odd bits TRENDY
Managed to turn up to class to do stories? NARRATE
Milky drink you might pick up for Arab leader SHEIKH
One hug oddly is sufficient! ENOUGH
Route we can find in clinic ourselves COURSE
Socialist student body returns, causing split SUNDER
Doctor is after true comfort SOLACE
Conductor’s coat he’d ordered CATHODE
Burrow, secure, hollow and dry SETT
Approval since dispatched ASSENT
Truce organised as fierce battle’s ending CEASEFIRE
Old Ed, silver on top AGED
The King drunkenly speaking made-up words ELVISH
Tacky products banned completely? Don't mention it NOT AT ALL
Moment on rocky peak to see area SECTOR
Fuel comes to an end — eight litres originally DIESEL
Paint great work, filling in outline from Dubuffet DEPICT
Force Peg to appear on Thursday TEETH
Very tough crook's outside robbery filling sack BACKBREAKING
Not becoming popular, Anglicans beset by depression INDECENT
Large duck wanting day in den on river LODGE
In public, suffers from unknown rash OVERHASTY
Easy to take in water? It gets knocked back NAIVE
Tests in multiculturalism — a xenophobe upset! EXAMS
1970s film frame from Altman — absorbing fiction ALIEN
Pasta coming from Baltic port to NI RIGATONI
Problem Yankee finds easy to remember CATCHY
Where tablets were taken, stopping pains in ailments SINAI
Wife into strong flavours making nasal sounds! TWANGS
Red cat follows e.g. rats up until noon? VERMILION
Crack team at sea makes decisive act on board CHECKMATE
Rightists twice holding wild rave where music's played CONSERVATORIES
Ornament packaging made badly? It's tedious work TREADMILL
Oriole initially on kind of perch is a singer BASSO