The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2300

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Clues Answers
A friend, you are not getting paid AMATEUR
A Yank raised total weight of aircraft all-up
Asian state broadcast match lacking in colour TAIWAN
Bolt case after adjusting bar OBSTACLE
Boy briefly caught in hail overhead ABOVE
Cast top layer, staying inside PLAYERS
Cat in bag: initially hard to put up with STOMACH
Composer’s last letter found in register LISZT
Fellow placing tea on piano CHAP
I go off course in SA mountain range SIERRA
Ill at ease as gum provides savoury filling sausage meat
In New York, a road outside area of tavern INNYARD
Judge meets up with European ESTEEM
Clues Answers
Letter to be burned: react badly CHARACTER
Mechanical device in pit containing a chain MACHINE
Pi cousin’s somehow causing scepticism! SUSPICION
Posting message, initially poorly MAILING
Public service’s lack of purpose when missing leader UTILITY
Quartz that’s still pit-coal, oddly SILICA
Skirt I located after thirty seconds? MINI
Something snappy held up by protagonists! GATOR
Something stirring, etc, in tax reforms EXCITANT
Sunday dinner, perhaps right next to oven ROAST
Tear wildly into the scene of operations THEATRE
Thespian to go off — about to return ACTOR