The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Italian merchant's donation, wanting day off ANTONIO
Los Angeles police operation impossible to forget LASTING
Bachelor for example in group sat date out POSTGRADUATE
Bee, one going after doctor DRONE
Golden Age Hollywood actress to tear tabloid up GARDNER
Harry Potter in film's premiere creating revenue NET PROFIT
Gone, a shell or bow, say? PASTA
E.g. TikTok star is awfully cruel, not primarily fine INFLUENCER
Madame Bovary is a classic novel EMMA
My rapid changes, solid PYRAMID
Dispenser taking lid off medicine, one put in box CHEMIST
Supportive material, strong STRAPPING
Letters penned by dilettante, a lazy dabbler TEAL
Ambassador having pretentious tendencies is jovial HEARTY
Tool spied SAW
Drugs cartel rotten, end conversation RING OFF
Maybe Brummie lad badly nursed by nanny midlander
Found again, divorcee's red pants REDISCOVERED
One providing rapid delivery of dish received by person who won't eat it? fast bowler
Current offering PRESENT
Big cougar originally aboard ship, wild feline BOBCAT
Get rid of container SACK
Where to get a taxi from station RANK
After selling out, what shopkeeper's doing about legwear RESTOCKING
Drink, dad? POP
Rubbish on rig ending in large skip IGNORE
Staff admitted to wearing priestly garments in capitalist organisations investment clubs
Comment made when contemptuous lout grabs bishop yah-boo
New shirt and tie back on heater, drier THIRSTIER
Bad attitude, say, during Christmas scene NEGATIVITY
Novelist's desperate, lacking time and energy to break into television TURGENEV
Fragrance appalling to wearers rose-water
Doughty United supporter backing attack UNAFRAID
Surprising grade in, so impressive GRANDIOSE
The main hazard for an experimental composer BERG
Gelatinous substance again missing in recipe, initially AGAR
Many sketches needing no introduction OODLES
Passage I seal off AISLE
Female animal, deer or elk, primarily DOE
Brushing off one good impediment to marriage proposal? IGNORING