The Times Cryptic May 14 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27977
Clues	Answers
Ancient study with group of horses he painted	CONSTABLE
Best of British beer good after siesta	break a leg
Bird: I'm not sure able in the end to soar?	EMU
Bone ultimately funny in arm	EQUIP
Circulating quickly around system, chocolate eggs initially in gut	VISCERAL
Country: a second where Lesotho located?	SAMOA
Doctor nursed a performer	DANSEUR
Eccentric, if excellent corporation	CRACKPOT
Grant fed cold sweet	DOLCE
Increase status in competition	crank up
Joker maybe behind screens in a Catholic's office	CARDINALATE
Name torn from Chinese book chap pens — one of fifty	MICHIGAN
Notice what women often don't give in saying	ADAGE
One or two fliers?	TITLARK
Plate knocked over: drawer for it?	animal magnetism
Put away at home, box packed with extraordinary care	INCARCERATE
Round of bloomers in sport? Certain to be eliminated	LEI
Seen in pebbledash, large piece of masonry	ASHLAR
Sensing fine things, a fine thing indeed!	the cats whiskers
Shed somewhere in Berkshire	SLOUGH
Short bursts help me, saving time	EPHEMERAL
Singular noun arranged around punctuation mark, shortly	UNCOMMON
Splendid wave	SWELL
Subtlety is missing from pest	NUANCE
Swimmer's incompetent first of four splits	CLOWNFISH
Take one back, possibly, as may master for servant?	ring a bell
Tool cauterises wound after third of stitches removed	SECATEURS
Tropical plant schmuck dipped in wine	CASSAVA
Two rums originally in strong drink	BRACER
Value in flag, patriotism finally returning	MERIT
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1874
Clues	Answers
A French tin nearly empty? That's weird	UNCANNY
Announce Mail Corp has been reorganised	PROCLAIM
Boy king following Dynasty	HANK
Call with drink for bird	RINGNECK
Chap, sad to say, botched raid	ALASDAIR
Cheeky old slave upset husband	FRESH
Do nothing right with, indeed, small openings	DOORWAYS
English poet Thomas seen in good light?	GRAY
For each person in the lead	AHEAD
Frolic outside a northern Scottish town	LANARK
Fruit shake with lemon mixed	rock melon
Get warmer a week on Thursday	THAW
Great flag to the west regularly appearing at a distance	AFAR
Illegal country sports event endureth sadly	deerhunt
Land held by rising millionaire, bilingual	LIBERIA
Large pants legal	LAWFUL
Late last month, became calmer	DECEASED
Leave Detective Sergeant in gallery	GODS
Put on commercial broadcast in the middle	ADD
Scottish city to be radiant, as golf is held in it	GLASGOW
Scottish resort to herb tea infusion, last of all	OBAN
Show boasted team on board plane	AIRCREW
So a drunk resolved to tour area to make enquiries	ask around
Specialised skill spoken of? Not at all	NOHOW
Teeth originally without brace	TWO
Very pleasant, with no end of sound	SONIC