The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Regret statute getting left out RUE
Fragile small boat TENDER
Bird heading briefly over rescue vessel TITLARK
Looker's twitching after surgical procedure OPTIC
Second goal brings delight SEND
Way to heave and extend STRETCH
Sheepish expert taken in by counterfeit notes SHAMEFACED
Game up in Italian river, endlessly deep POLO
Port sacked in Ottoman push SOUTHAMPTON
Recalled part of great Cabaret performance ACT
Poems following college worlds UNIVERSES
Award's military one churchyard elegist accepts GRAMMY
Leader of talented lasses knitted ornamental hangings TASSELS
Understatement no mature person prevaricates about LITOTES
Isolated as Man United? ALONE
Famous studies hiding criminal DISTINGUISHED
Speaker's entirely boring object AWL
Stop chorus REFRAIN
Luxurious establishment on Piccadilly — it's a cracker RITZ
Articles presented in trifling taste for numskull FATHEAD
Guinness maybe brought round, second one and last? STICK IT OUT
Unfairness of popular union INEQUITY
Car going around curve ARC
Impresario after concert books Queen PROMOTER
Thread from sack catching tip of briar FIBRE
Hurt in match, leaves boxing TEA CHEST
Rotters holding right means of payment CARDS
House man's inside to find reference work THESAURUS
Cut down time in beach cabin at last SHORTEN
Heads of bespoke English fashion industry tailoring suit BEFIT
Threw ground around low plants UNDERGROWTH
Hooter sound one's missing NOSE
Sends on rugby players FORWARDS
Examines small tins SCANS
Party member to avoid leader of Greens? There's benefit DOLE
Cut back pit work testing EXAMINING