The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Point about unique selling point CUSP
Celebrities: one missing from flight STARS
Carved figure from galley regularly about years after long-dead ship GARGOYLE
Anticyclone arrives in Scots region HIGHLANDS
Almost convinced about old tart SOUR
Drug check protecting friendly community and its environment ECOSYSTEM
Trouble one is going to ILL
Plot after papa gets fresh Covid variant sans name in lab exposure? photomicrograph
People of a similar age in one great movement GENERATION
Peak adding singular note to hat CAPSTONE
Add up pennies spent finally: you love us to be extravagant SUMPTUOUS
Card box for footwear SHOE
Lift beams when speaking RAISE
Sharpness about tungsten guitar string’s sound TWANG
Entice to remove head — one head — resulting in vacancy EMPTINESS
Concertgoer taking in good artist, one who shapes concert PROGRAMMER
See you master lingo finally ready for Italy? EURO
Make bigger penny loaf: regret missing odd bits ENLARGE
Claim during trial about English Republican INTEREST
Tsar shot certainly in error ASTRAY
In note, mistake saints for violent criminals TERRORISTS
Broadcast now so faint SWOON
Leave out Bard’s title role when mounted in reduced form? OMIT
Small donkey runs: one’s puffing? SMOKER
Front runners in shock photo finish paying out SPENDING
Assents in reforming offensive nature NASTINESS
Somewhere to hide from awfully scary aunt SANCTUARY
As good as a mile out? AMISS
Baseball fielder and items he wears when running? SHORTSTOP
Dog bound to be supported by queen SPRINGER
Accepted standard of most of section PAR
Striking unconscious OUT
Bands having bunk on board steamship STRIPES
Fruit began going off in truck LOGANBERRY
Client is against a girl returning VASSAL
Prudent to pursue universal employment USAGE
Church follows New Testament about Old Nick NOTCH
I’m possibly 50cc, two wheels — try me! MOTORCYCLE
Neckwear brightly coloured like a wedding cake? TIERED