The Times Cryptic May 27 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27988
Clues	Answers
A fine story and easy to relate to	AFFABLE
Accepted statement from a football team over millions	AXIOM
Acute range of knowledge about Earth's origin	KEEN
At first, Etna's rumbling, under pressure to __ this?	ERUPT
Awkward relative __ bachelor that may be turned away	AVERTIBLE
British fix promotion that is right for officer	BRIGADIER
Country having a thousand Polish perhaps returning	BURMA
Detest a key PM cut by parliamentarians in place in London	hampstead Heath
Dog suffering modern ban	DOBERMANN
Every European run mostly loaded with hidden imports?	ALLEGORIC
Get angry, grabbing fine weapon	RIFLE
Novel article close to capturing big guns	the great gatsby
Novel style of energy weapon __ disintegrating ray	EPISTOLARY
Other side about to need judge in game	BLACKJACK
Pay due regard to board	KEEP
Pensioner storing it around courtyard	PATIO
Praver's verse, a line ignored by eg Brunnhilde	KYRIE
Regret accepting level income	REVENUE
Ship's front that takes a long time to pass	GALLEON
Some in hotel are billing rises __ that's mean	ILLIBERAL
Some words for actor are mostly a former script	Linear A
Strangely stark limestone landscape	KARST
Support for line I found in European capital mostly __ about time	VIADUCT
The answer to this clue should fit the light	GLAZIER
Update umpire concerning his having missed one over	REFRESH
Vision of some past foxtrot champion retaining beat	FLASHBACK
Went carefully arranging good deed	EDGED
What drivers use dearest place to get contents of pump?	PETROLEUM
What's needed for a mobile phone mount	CHARGER
What's used for draught in county hospital or site left empty	shire horse
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1883
Clues	Answers
Calls to collect the woman's fruit	CHERRIES
Cat put in bag __ hard to bear	STOMACH
Clubber gazed around, taking in Croatian capital	ZAGREB
Ease, lazily at first, into a set	ALLAY
Energy, at the present time, no longer sufficient	ENOW
Fight when teetotaller gets in birthday beer!	do battle
Hates breaking dish	ASHET
Horse runs around in tar	MARINER
I am past the final stage of development	IMAGO
Leading journo travelled back across it	EDITOR
Like tiny particles of mosaic, but different	SUBATOMIC
Little the outlaw does for his royal enemy?	JOHN
Mighty impressive record in charge	EPIC
More wary of large stranger	LEERIER
Mother could be odd ally	Old Lady
Primarily, intelligence and love combined	in one
Recalled unsophisticated French spa town	EVIAN
Relative of swan confused with lion	son-in-law
Remove stunted vegetation	SCRUB
Scottish landowners in Los Angeles __ one's crossing road	LAIRDS
Sketch Madeline, a temptress, in part!	DELINEATE
Understand loud social gathering hasn't ended	FATHOM
Unhappy DIY's made complicated	DISMAYED
Upset by grasping old ruffian	YOB
Which two hints are taken initially?	THAT
Woman undressed in garden the previous day	EVE