The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Cut flower short SEVER
Nearly miss one car reversing, tending to obstruct INIMICAL
A fraud I am after, alternatively IMPOSTOR
Victorian writer reported disreputable female TROLLOP
Maybe Spanish folks and Russians, heading off IBERIANS
Member of choir is b---- fool BASS
Supply to last, right away ENDUE
Warning a tool is wasting energy ADVICE
Misrepresent volume editor over a text from antiquity rig-veda
Rebuke clubs requiring mask CHIDE
A parliamentary session ends initially in recess APSE
Nectar-seeking flier from group of Noctuidae TUI
Classical female appearing in select range ELECTRA
Friendly greeting from rural workers around Lima PLEASANTRY
Most awful French art covered in muck DIREST
Japanese money had for governing body SENATE
Deposed empress volunteers to ingest poison TSARINA
Reliable writer, I have written about French cinematographer AUTHORITATIVE
Those actively promoting speed route for fast jumping? HYPERSPACE
Introduction to Fritz Lang and Mabuse’s last projection FLANGE
Second-year student hopes room is free SOPHOMORE
Gang somewhere in Cheshire, we hear CREW
Bomb around large weapon FLAIL
Hack chasing lead on cricket champ CHEW
Depend on artist? Hardly RARELY
Sample latest of paintings in gallery TASTE
Panelling succeeds around a small bed WAINSCOT
Brought up to hide pain, being violated BREACHED
Hypocrisy accepted by one country for a spell INCANTATION
It bans a clinic under reconstruction taking in people? CANNIBALISTIC
Gloria's unusual gem GIRASOL
Republican brought up to corruption ROT
First in class, little Andrew is sweet CANDY
See first of keels in pound going up or down on canal LOCKAGE
A writer's absorbing article BLOTTING PAPER
Painter and inventor in Italy's capital BELLINI
Type of apple no good, nearly all Asian rootstock for cooking GALANGAL