The Times Cryptic May 28 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27989
Clues	Answers
A sort of dance? Move slowly if necessary	at a pinch
Better organised revolutionary holding one childish opponent back	TIDIER
Close contract finally, with some help around	at hand
Confirm escape of wild animal?	bear out
Fresh United back finally ready	DEWY
Get back on with putsch	RECOUP
Getting at bandleader wearing nothing ostentatious	NOBBLING
In bowl, article that may accompany coffee	DANISH
Is youngster allowed to eat here?	CANTEEN
Liked a river, but forced to divert round it	cared for
Lily has a special house key	ASPHODEL
Me and my best friend?	SETTER
Members of union run into worries	BROTHERS
Old radical populist with two pounds in bank at end of year	LEVELLER
One of Jane's, her baby not unusually filled with rage	northanger abbey
Poison developed from a protein	ATROPINE
Really great performance __ furious father's left	GIGANTIC
Regular and predictable movement late in the day	EVENTIDE
Similar-sounding old name given to animal and insect	ASSONANT
Some medicine stolen? One may win in court	drop shot
Stage a new abridged production of The Cherry Orchard	Gean
Start bland description of restaurant experience	INITIATE
Such an office aiming to eliminate handwriting?	open-plan
Supply wren with suet feeder	wet nurse
Suspended, getting in bloody fast	go hungry
Thought anyone but myself available	NOTION
Two dots, for example, representing small island	COLONSAY
Wicked Olympic city unfortunately unsafe to tour	NEFARIOUS
Yearn extremely to visit the ends of the earth: one reaches a group of islands	POLYNESIA
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1884
Clues	Answers
Barium processed in Italian region	UMBRIA
Before noble, one queen	EARLIER
Both chess players going to extremes	black and white
Burrowing animal, or llama I'd cooked!	ARMADILLO
Club is in district of Washington and capital of Ohio	DISCO
Days in March initially quite dark	DIM
Drop awful crude joke, finally	REDUCE
Eggs for two people, ultimately	ROE
Extraordinary row with Samoan rower	OARSWOMAN
Fruit gobbled up by little mongrel	LEMON
Gives up prostitute, getting shot in the arm	kick-start
I see what you're saying!	lip reader
Imagine extraordinary red feline returning	dream up
In need of opening, kitchen passage	ALLEY
Money trimmed, small figure	ONE
Notice working? Exactly!	spot on
Pelt despicable group	SHOWER
People in the Bible destroying Satan with holiness	THESSALONIANS
Reddish-brown colour one's seen in mushy peas	SEPIA
Shop offering drunk ale, no regrets!	general store
Short day in warmer African country	SUDAN
Some mistake by ambassador reversed, perhaps	MAYBE
Thought of French being set free	DELIBERATION
Unit giving nothing to Her Majesty	OHM