The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 06 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Bilbao got hammered for performance regardless OBBLIGATO
Using one short skewer, upset an arrangement of blooms IKEBANA
Huge groans heard by public OUTSIZE
Not all dealt a round for table ALTAR
Note heavy defeat for champion far-out
Not going on to give instructions BRIEF
A piece of bread sliced off roughly AROUND
Minister to put on sporting event, displaying impartiality OPEN MIND
Almost November first? NEARLY
Slope in field, ending by barn, finally LEAN
Well-informed and capable of engagement up-to-date
One not keeping company in sick bay INFIRMARY
Left wingers somehow miss flogging daily? NEWSGIRL
What’s outrageous in second phrase on family arms MOTTO
Allocate a small token ASSIGN
Picture rodent eating one beyond harbour PORTRAIT
Stars performing across river ORION
Girl from a good home to duck, perhaps, out of convent finally AGNES
Unusual where patrolling police go after work? OFFBEAT
Small-minded about Romeo charming PRETTY
Celebrity of note — yours truly FAME
Puff pastry’s first up PRAISE
Left one in Capitol unusually attached to party POLITICAL
Weapon plot is badly organised PISTOL
African city, a centrepiece for semiurban guidebook BANGUI
Present small in size: a foot? STOCKING FILLER
Attack of French army initially — anxieties to be ignored FALL ON DEAF EARS
Stay too long, missing good cruise ship LINER
Time European is accepting border idea THEME
Contrive not to see ogre in ground IGNORE
End spoken language FINISH
Female leaving attractive artwork ETCHING
Rambling among pines, end somehow in Cheshire town long-windedness
Risk going on outside having abandoned trunks in Welsh town ABERDARE
Goods in shop, yet not moving stock still
Person immensely greedy, primarily PIG
Getting out one’s prayer book after synod’s ending DISMISSAL
Scores, being virile, making answer acceptable to Her Ladyship? MUCHO
Judge of performance regularly displayed acerbic twitch CRITIC