The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Big area has a little grandeur, as I anticipated EURASIA
Prison officer’s wage SCREW
Exceptional — as work in relief? OUTSTANDING
Motorist’s club DRIVER
Perplexity shown by less civilised chaps involved in wager BEWILDERMENT
Today's pie virtually ruined — miserable state DYSTOPIA
Study of weapons finally kept in garden ROCKETRY
Host in fluster finally donning skimpy outfit THRONG
Concluded successfully, being proficient ACCOMPLISHED
Wife neglecting sandwich getting blame RAP
Evergreen tree — old, as it happens OLIVE
Pie-eyed bachelor’s first game BLOTTO
Record held by greyhound is challenged DISC
Fizzy tonic water warmer when it's cold? winter coat
Engraver and painter leaving house for court GARTH
Dead bird and mummy found in African capital DODOMA
Almighty squeeze on income, ultimately HUGE
Novel lament of Venus de Milo? A FAREWELL TO ARMS
A different article — by him, presumably? ANOTHER
For example, king or queen in movie, original picture card
Woman in City area originally teaching law EDICT
Made progress, being precocious ADVANCED
Down in time, best coming earlier PLUMAGE
Pass very agilely at first around island VISA
Old comedian almost getting head in order ABBOT
Awfully unsettled after vacation and ever so tired OVERUSED
Shift gear, car failing to start — one probably not flying? BUDGERIGAR
Bird feeding fish to number of whales POCHARD
Very rich plant producing railway carriages, etc ROLLING STOCK
Hotel worker maybe interrupting while new person washed up has-been
One youngster in Students’ Union — a nightmare! INCUBUS
One removed from main cooker? CHEF
Nonentity’s complaint about inferior wine? NOBODY