The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Lush part of rural Kyrgyzstan ALKY
Bit mean, to make contact! touch base
Magnificent online film EPIC
Son prepared to be drinking greedily SWILLING
Draw what informally comes up TOW
I had cared to relinquish European personal document? ID CARD
Worker perhaps abandons vital foreign consignment IMPORT
Poetry in very old language succeeded VERSES
Retire an unreliable old servant RETAINER
Farm employees not working easily HANDS DOWN
Trees in front, stone behind FOREST
Wine kitty keeps at home PINOT
Level of tale told to audience STOREY
Temperature lowered, subjected to banter TEASED
Approximately year lost by African slave on island CALIBAN
Spot Italian meat SPECK
Small appreciative crowd SWARM
Country united in reversal of basic principles CUBA
GENUINE POLISH SAINT HONEST
Tree, mark, is solidly rooted FIRM
“Motorway pace” — should have read “Motorway race”? MISPRINT
Item of footwear, one treading on banana skin? SLIPPER
Head cut off in photograph, laugh HOOT
Female stiff and unresponsive FRIGID
49 per cent? 100 per cent! NOT HALF
Cow eating cow, perhaps: roughly speaking, is its mate able to? CANNIBAL
Plug at first fits badly FILL
Seat is awkward for nap SIESTA
Close to gagging when I cry, first of all BASICALLY
Old swimmer lassoing a bovine OAFISH
Supply funds for vessel STOCKPOT
Bonus clue TIP
Wine having seen better days removed from case ASTI
Song is broadcast AIR
Pick up coin, did you say? SCENT