The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
American lawman perfects listening devices EARPHONES
Particle of dirt ultimately found in nerve cell NEUTRON
Female relative to bust some moves, not showing initial anxiety ANCESTRESS
Queen's standard uncovered ANNE
Poems composed for racecourse EPSOM
Pattern of short-term worker running behind TEMPLATE
Narrow escape concludes experience CLOSE SHAVE
Bread is tossed for gull, say SEABIRD
Try going viral? That's tragic heart-rending
Child's ditty not finished SON
Old steward overturned change of direction on energy REEVE
Energy comes from tea, not alcohol primarily CHI
One who painted rubbish hotel floor ROTHKO
Contents of letter I posted for Sally RIPOSTE
Clubs working to infiltrate US tax organisation IRONS
Briefly examine earring STUD
Style of music from Asian capital overheard SOUL
Used to be extremely tiresome and refuse WASTE
Occasionally crafty pet CAT
Go at a brisk pace, and bump into socialist jog trot
Instrument put wine outside home CLARINET
Insect biting woman in tropical land BELIZE
Metal carton is crushed CASTIRON
Fashionable to help backward country INDIA
Uncomfortable, Bill ate a seafood sample ILL AT EASE
Jane perhaps picked up melody AIR
A large vehicle collecting an unknown number for fortress ALCAZAR
Silk wrap from Chanel maybe being worn COCOON
Knife crazy revolutionary STAB
How smart you are, apprehending king approaching a country IRAQ
Some data from faulty battery given energy TERABYTE
Mischievous principal ARCH
Equal it shot for shot? TEQUILA
Present system of arcane tests scrapped secret santa
Character of a group of soldiers once? THETA
Wash broken lance CLEAN
Period drama finally shown after hesitation ERA
Fabric of a Frenchman JEAN
Instructs alien to produce toy TRAIN SET