The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 14

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