The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 18

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