The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2324

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Clues Answers
A little brother’s sitting up in bed, rapt ABSORBED
A search to the east of pet cemetery CATACOMB
A sister’s on for making new statements ASSERTIONS
Bait boss regularly, producing childish articles BIBS
Big city fails: if let off, they’ll be fuming! smoke bombs
Fashionable greeting among Conservatives CHIC
Father’s dark brown — or fair? PASSABLE
Film maker arrived with artist CAMERA
Finally see Hammond bowled by spinner EDDY
Goes out on the beach? EBBS
Muse about painting being returned CLIO
One hundred and one becoming ninety-nine? CONE
Clues Answers
One minds young graduate being next to model baby-sitter
One minute before noon, prayer leader appears IMAM
One’s yellow jersey, perhaps, found on a road COWARD
Part of goal to get from one end of pub to the other? CROSSBAR
Permitted drops of water to escape, but not the ball? DRIBBLED
Plane maybe carrying a pair of bishops, bearing more weight? FLABBIER
Sacred greeting by day HALLOWED
Silly daughter at the back DAFT
The Spanish yet to produce a cricket team? ELEVEN
Top monks like to carry books and Old Testament ABBOTS
Used soy sauce primarily for cooking Greek on epic journey ODYSSEUS
Vessels: most at base, after refit STEAMBOATS