The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
It’s back of leg or a little lower? CALF
Had a game plan sorted for keeping ball — most important element ALPHA AND OMEGA
Expert in A-section? ADEPT
Escapes when crossing Gulf AVOIDS
Poor actor allowed in drama HAMLET
Lace is enough to be worked into couch CHAISE LONGUE
Sacred poem from saint in tree PSALM
Second drink, kiss and cuddle SNOG
Using every effort in Home and Away? FLAT OUT
Mark's catching game TAG
Old knight in control in religious community MONASTERY
Duo in ancient wood TWO
Very tiny pipistrelle, say, trapped by Finnish SUBATOMIC
Delayed catching rook in camp loo LATRINE
Daughter in tune, or one braying? DONKEY
Who’s hammered at last — and he a smoker, unfortunately SHOEMAKER
One small faction inside lots of mixed group MISCELLANY
What’s in internet form returned many times? OFTEN
What a bee does around its second plant and leaves eventually? HUMUS
Lack of restrictions when squeezing Charlie's spots NOTICES
Nervous about zany inferior SHODDY
Viagra not stirring pilot NAVIGATOR
Going on a separate mission objective DETACHED
Determined and furtive about support of course STEELY
Rivalry unnecessary when ship departs NEEDLE
Wordless 6 from bad guy — an ogle possibly? BODY LANGUAGE
Detailed question about a single king’s daughter GONERIL
Influential leader in good United game GURU
Bird sound like a dove beginning to twitter COOT
A nun tried misbehaving like a novice UNTRAINED
Terms are misused in banner headline STREAMER
Some bread frequently put before pigs GUINEA
Playwright inferior in companion to Equus? MARLOWE
One French and Spanish coin is fake UNREAL
Obsessive chasing money ring DOUGHNUT
New US president following God may, perhaps THORNBUSH
Be in debt in Greek peninsula GOWER
British use a basil oil when cooking stew BOUILLABAISSE
Babylonian lawgiver, one to ban Muslim community returning HAMMURABI