The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Appeal inspiring a good heroic story SAGA
Quietly leaves to view cricket, for example INSECT
Feature of a pirate flag from racing boat, reportedly SKULL
Defamation engulfs king and a politician LIBERAL
Laid back regarding head of legal getting fired RELAXED
Scoundrel at home following football team VILLAIN
Charge made by expert Europeans keeping sheep PROTEGEE
Examine front of polyester garment PROBE
Short story about Oscar approaching a curve PARABOLA
Fateful day Cockney goes to ground? IDES
Dance in colossal saloon SALSA
Fail to be swimming? This may help! LIFEBOAT
Rule out ditching Chopin’s first short composition PRELUDE
Having right to be honoured ENTITLED
Inflexible gear old American soldiers carried RIGOROUS
Time to accept work initially slicing cut of beef TOPSIDE
Wall hanging records sporting achievement TAPESTRY
Initially settle on blue-green: a bargain! STEAL
Joiner's plates smashed STAPLE
Out of shape female entering military group UNFIT
Hill-dweller terribly rude about one leaving flat terrain UPLANDER
Crack troops reportedly seize Scotsman maybe in province SASKATCHEWAN
Pollen mix studied by national broadcaster BEEBREAD
Temple too dilapidated for native American carving TOTEM POLE
Kerfuffle is not yet completed to-do
Word of praise about advertisement's boldness BRAVADO
Gloomy when accepting one's second sacking DISMISSAL
Rip off woollen coat FLEECE
Grass English composer found in odd parts of dale DARNEL
Snake endlessly turning up in Old Norse poems EDDA
Charity is embarrassed and angry RED CROSS
Sly person is not opening art equipment EASEL
Hallucinogenic drug a chap’s smuggled into mess HASHISH
Leader of squad softening and extracting metal SMELTING
Daily grind beginning to relent a little RAT RACE
Pills split by nine playing game TABLE TENNIS
Spots new section NOTICES
Requesting silence in sailing ship, seeing marine creature basking shark
That girl’s boyfriends include extremely dubious animal minders HERDSMEN