The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 05 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Picking up speed and later cocaine, possibly ACCELERATION
Newspaper group assigned period time slot
A pan put back on ATOP
Retailer opening for sales before spring SHOP
Time in office is somewhat better, maybe TERM
Face coverings king used in church service MASKS
Step on edges of large pedal TREADLE
Shallow sort involved in leak skin-deep
Dull ending for low-cost ceremony TRITE
European head going round German city ESSEN
Rudely infers travelling is easy to manage user-friendly
Some get a gin, eating stew TAGINE
Celtic flower next to hospital IRISH
Having fun is standard prior to making a connection PARTYING
Plane perhaps regularly turned east TREE
A crass Finn ruined company somewhere in America SAN FRANCISCO
Meat pie and fantastic chips on trays CORNISH PASTY
Work comes up, varies regularly OEUVRE
One maybe developing a plot, reportedly for Hollywood star GARDNER