The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 23

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