The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 14

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Fake swamp near America BOGUS
Flier featuring chess piece and chess player, we hear? KINGFISHER
Kitchen implement alas put in a stew SPATULA
Last bit is removed from aircraft design PLAN
Leftover lira used carelessly RESIDUAL
More masculine merchant BUTCHER
Place where officers eat pickle MESS
Small dishes of baked pasta TAPAS
Stars kind to plug Sinatra classic? MILKY WAY
Teach Europeans to hide old gold coin EDUCATE
Try out some concrete structures TEST
Dairy product initially of great help in tent YOGHURT
Crazy to discard small piece of fruit BANANA
Complain and drink, reportedly WHINE
Clumsily enacts mountaineering objective ASCENT
Theatre permitted audience finally full REPLETE
Sport, one a few find boring WEARISOME
Small set of wheels carried on a cycle RUNAROUND
Like newsprint to be profitable, protecting salesperson’s turnover PAPERY
Fuddy-duddy leaving to prepare for a fight SQUARE OFF
Endless Burgundy in green bottles UNDYING
Dim seabird flying around wedding participant BRIDESMAID
Carry off old drunk? WINO
Am prone to abuse: I take it all back! REPOMAN
Expressed frustration as small, hard blocks carelessly handled PSHAWED
Old railway porter’s maybe succeeded in freeing chest? BRALESS
Sort of cake you quietly consume after eleven? upside-down
Those who catch rabbits, heading off after November NABBERS
Arctic homes initially interest grand ladies and gents IGLOOS
Astronaut's gear made from second rate diamonds, say SPACESUIT
Sat around hugging old partner in US state TEXAS
Compile hit clue for cracking sort of quiz! multiple-choice
Intermediate stage completed after being put back a year PUPA