The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Fighter closed and roared furiously TOREADOR
Decorous supporter losing heart PROPER
Temptation to retain energy is leading to relaxation LEISURE
Idiot to damage vessel CRACKPOT
While speaking, surrounded offensive woman GERTRUDE
Clergyman to genuflect in free prayer PREBENDARY
Under protective cover, evidently, fraudulently set up robbery BRIGANDAGE
Weapon store on beach where Holmes’s adventures took place strand magazine
Be a pessimist ultimately in defeat BEAT
Bill aimed surprisingly to join a world of brainy folk? ACADEMIA
Car numberplate? One working part REGION
Get a rash possibly going to a very hot dry region SAHARA
Old-style driver has companion, a funny guy always CHARIOTEER
Piece of glass left as rectangular design feature? PANEL
Pig clean? Nonsense! HOGWASH
Promoted by firm for masterful move COUP
One has somebody calling round? More like a scammer! PHONIER
Not prepared to survive, being tiny last-minute
Diarist’s criticism of a bottle of plonk? NOBODY
Cloud’s position covering river STRATUS
Fellow outside hotel in Belgian city GHENT
Suddenly blew up: detectives have left horrified GUSTED
Unusual disrepute attaches to judge for witty remark jeu desprit
Five hundred beers in part of Yorkshire? DALES
French priest offers healing CURE
Shape of dome obscuring supposedly good view OPINION
Annoying messenger not quite finishing call ANGERING
Nun coming down to new church in carriage CLARENCE
Consume what makes you ’ot EAT
Declare answer extremely short AVER
Tragic king cut short in meadow LEA
Violently led a conflict to overturn disadvantageous settlement RAW DEAL
Some musicians met an ancient composer SMETANA
Fellow taking an extreme position in SW England? CORNISHMAN
Stages of route for members LEGS
Excess quantity left in narrow passage GLUT