The Times Cryptic February 23 2021 Crossword Answers

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27908
Clues	Answers
A niqab is said to be useful	AVAIL
Against coins not using English metal? Sort of	ANTIMONY
Author prepared to admit claim to be of high standard?	william golding
Bird made of silver unwanted at first in auction	SEAGULL
Carry out a couple of poles to plant in piece of land	TRANSACT
Cold store for wine with a hidden compartment	CABIN
Complain pathetically about idiot revelry	WASSAIL
Employer turned up yours truly's CV	RESUME
Engine's temperature fell all round	MOTOR
Fabric cut: it is seen in a soft glow	TWILIT
Ground where reptile doesn't keep quiet	TERRAIN
Hotels cover the earth profusely	in numbers
In American city, possesses capital	LHASA
Isn't an awfully short time? It is	INSTANT
Maid watchful when old bachelor goes missing	SERVANT
Mercenary ruing he'd fired	hired gun
One line crossed by old farmers, tough old birds	BOILERS
One on a dash, nothing to prevent covering over a mile	ODOMETER
Part of body shape swollen by organ	FOREARM
People following rich individual coming in today, moving fast	day of atonement
Prosperity supplies a barrier to restrict disease	AFFLUENCE
Publicise, year upon year, entertainment of a delicate nature	airy-fairy
Ring America after the peak	TORUS
Risk a car crash, when two metals collide?	cut in
Say, a call in court is rejected by union instruction	TUTELAGE
Solid surface, one on a nut	MACADAMIA
Sport's over: fits horribly and dies	snuffs it
Stomach feeble returning musical phrase	MIDRIFF
Team of lawyers in literary county	BARSET
Tours regularly around Naples, originally coming from Florence?	TUSCAN
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1816
Clues	Answers
A taxi passenger's last to be dropped some way away	AFAR
Caught beyond fielding position	COVER
Conservative shock with chap meeting leader	CHAIRMAN
Crufts regularly allowed meat on the bone	CUTLET
Extensive notes showing how much policemen are indebted?	COPIOUS
Finish getting runs in place for batsman	CREASE
Former print media, say	EXPRESS
Give a long involved story	SAGA
Ground patrols round a country	PASTORAL
Just book early for a change	BARELY
Left gold for respected poet	LAUREATE
Letter of thanks after getting shown the way up	DELTA
Mostly disagree about us lacking concentration	DIFFUSE
Queen carried in pretentiously refined vessel	ARTERY
Safeguard two companies working	COCOON
Share out a fee for passage on the way back	ALLOT
Son has sexy photograph	SHOT
Spot calcium used in cosmetic cream	LOCATION
Tart and custard isn't desirable in courses — just starters	ACIDIC
Theatre operative attaching end of arm to leg	STAGEHAND
Walk street and go from side to side	STROLL
What help one get a grip resolving perils	PLIERS
What's in creel? Very small fish	ELVER
Where Queen may entertain government or set up Order of Merit	STATEROOM
Writing on the wall round gents	OMEN
Your setter has a completely confident step	MEASURE