The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 06

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