The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 11 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Speak, for example SAY
King entertains primate in light-hearted event? CAPER
Backer briefly entering explosive function TANGENT
Law firm exec regularly duped about new licence a free hand
Old story about India at back of Republican magazine REPOSITORY
English stigma made French scoff ESCARGOT
Silver pressing on primate's Christian love AGAPE
Weaselly type's rowdy intemperance leaving church PINE MARTEN
Most stylish and vacuous supermodel, I'm afraid, is in France SLEEKEST
A billion goats slaughtered for world economic development GLOBALISATION
Kindly feeding extremely suspicious bees etc SWARMS
Queasy hosts digested last of blood pudding SPOTTED DICK
Sky broadcast quality song AIR
Fancy Easter sun and sweet wine SAUTERNES
Merit being severed somehow DESERVE
Quarrels for left-overs? SCRAPS
Artist exaggerating could make a cur artistic CARICATURIST
One who's cut out to be an artist? ETCHER
Prepared money READY
Devoid of ego, listener somehow gives way RELENTS
Man perhaps read aloud passage ISLE
Tough old bird’s lost after terrible tale LEATHERN
Cunning insult overheard SLEIGHT
Mixture of male impetuosity and half-cut rage MELANGE
Flash one's lower parts SECONDI
Singular character departs on a trip STONED
Leaves half blown away in meadow LEA
A feature of many a department store involving a real cost ESCALATOR
Painter of house and courtyard HOGARTH
Eco-friendly vehicle part contains uranium, really oddly carbon neutral
Bird is cold, needing cover for head CHAT
Decorated sumptuously in gold, awfully neat ORNATE
Low spirits start to get lower? GLOOM
Confess some shallow notions OWN
Garments putting pressure on navels pinnies
Footballer restored to team? BACK
Finally organising diverse people into rank and order ARRANGEMENT
Service is no good if earlier however EVENSONG
Italian, a master seen in retrospect as fine instrument maker AMATI