The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Four inside carry out administrator EXECUTIVE
Plan to consume once again aromatic liqueur CHARTREUSE
Spice, say, for about pound FLAVOURING
Take advantage of former unit amid patch of ground EXPLOIT
Gentle domestic assistant at sea? LIGHTHOUSE
Highly distinctive singer getting note wrong right after bar COUNTERTENOR
Tax lots of wine — such actions have lasting consequences test cases
Fine cook, Betty, fried around one tickety-boo
After zero, mostly call into question critical marks OBELI
Scrap to secure, on comeback, minor acting role BIT PART
Private investigator, lead character in comedy film PIC
Wise man adding name to one's performance SOLON
A Parisian applied to one educational institution UNI
Like most piano music in an album I arranged BIMANUAL
Kind of Christian convert best in prayer PRESBYTERIAN
Drink daily, cause of depression SUNDOWNER
What student may achieve in sixty minutes DEGREE
Crack swimmer in British river DECODE
Her stables in need of work, becoming more stuffy BREATHLESS
River in America grabbing daughter INDUS
Small organ piece, part of larger one SLIVER
Eggs on view acquired initially OVA
Negative element in county team DOWNSIDE
Red ants occasionally bite EAT
Wild animal bound, attached to stake, initially ANTELOPE
Guardian's charge put up in no-win situation DRAW
Old weapon found in a river bank ARROW
Notice in playground upturned tree CEDAR
Quantity of paintwork halved IN TWO
Banned a bachelor entering also TABOO
Husband not at home mostly — India twice and US state HAWAII
Where most have convictions, image improvement is working PRISON
Socrates I'd badly punished in Greek way OSTRACISED
Eg Eliot's work in bank, in opposite sense reversely