The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
One inspired by celebrity’s instrument SITAR
Reconstruct a buttress for lower level SUBSTRATE
Body of Republican found in wood CORPSE
Living in desert, unfortunately RESIDENT
British PM once briefly in fight BATTLE
Best member of a Motown group SUPREME
Let almost everyone go “Moo” ALLOW
Supposed reason purser occasionally given message PRETEXT
Sudden cry of ox maniac let loose EXCLAMATION
Deceive husband? What an idiot I am! DOH
Pressure inside Venus or a wildly exploding star SUPERNOVA
Planning on behalf of crew about start of strike FORESIGHT
Rule broken by halfwit put in new position REASSIGN
Finally reduced world records ATLAS
Overtake European in odd display of par golf LEAPFROG
Soldiers round a waterhole have good intentions MEAN WELL
Jockey a proven US star SUPERNOVA
Cook in pan ROAST
Decent chalet I designed ETHICAL
Hear about every queen’s disloyalty TREACHERY
Famous bowler getting a duck? DRAKE
Collective punishment? Certainly not SOLITARY
Compelling reform of phony movement out of control HYPNOTIC
Turning over stylish reading INVERSION
Uphold placing a female over company AFFIRM
A little toad but no hole? TAD
Wanted to be manipulated according to speaker NEEDED
Foolhardy to take Cockney woman’s bit of bacon RASHER
OT prophet endlessly pursuing king’s pleasure RELISH
Clergyman welcoming a nuclear facility REACTOR
A small amount of gold, perhaps ELEMENT
It’s in support I and a Conservative assembled for appeasing PROPITIATORY
Trips learner, shattering computer peripheral laser printer
As fish may be, but not bird or mammal PLURAL