The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 24

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