The Times Cryptic May 7 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27971
Clues	Answers
Age ponies developed intelligence	ESPIONAGE
Appropriate discussion groups outing cheat	take for a ride
Attractiveness of dapper male stripped	APPEAL
Be indecisive, beginning to discuss the matter with her	DITHER
Belief in some sacred order	CREDO
British like sportsmen losing large and being a real let-down	BATHETIC
Cover small taxi off across river	SCABBARD
Dance having to ban girl	BARCAROLE
El, perhaps __ and where it terminates?	end of the line
Enclosed crop before the beginning of December	CORNERED
Flaw in paragon's claim?	IMPERFECTION
Girl's run off after writer	PENELOPE
Item often illegally exported from country without coast	IVORY
Key at one point right with far from moving piece	concertstuck
Manage US city with medical service, ultimately in place of political agreement	RUNNYMEDE
Middle of plant yielded sisal, say	AGAVE
Mineral unknown, right in mine __ end of mine	PYRITE
Northern labourer caught creature eating fish	COTTER
Pasta to supply a boost, mainly	RIGATONI
Port drinker gets up after ten drunk	ENTREPOT
Shot current news report	BULLETIN
Shrew's close relative destroyed a cabin	BIANCA
Suffering some to be blocked by progress	AGONY
Unorthodox head's key refusal to accept point	ANTIPOPE
Voice disapproval about wealthy man, a relative of ours	BONOBO
What might be Beth's landlord?	LETTER
Wine left to breathe in protective cover	MALBEC
Wizard has primate nearly in a fury	archimage
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1869
Clues	Answers
Behave badly at university after play	act up
Bishop having responsibility for extra payment	BONUS
Celebrities with a brand new South American flag	Stars and Bars
Colour of bream swimming	AMBER
Cook slowly heading off in rear	RAISE
Dupe kind companion	CONSORT
Feeling movement following onset of earthquake	EMOTION
Film tank tracks	Reservoir Dogs
First of skiers immediately departs on mountain	SNOWDON
Game show	CHESS
Health worker, poorly insured, firm admitted	district nurse
Hurt one squeezing hard	ACHE
In Carmarthenshire after that	THEN
Managed to bring about endless resentment	RANCOUR
No rise, oddly, for one of higher rank	SENIOR
Police officer in danger, skeets flying about	desk sergeant
Rice dish is too much in centre of St-Tropez	RISOTTO
Secure item of neckwear reduced in price	tie down
She finally received rent, a personal morale-booster	ego trip
Short bar put out	ABRUPT
Show vet	SCREEN
Swift attack seizing power	RAPID
Twenty runs __ I'll record that	SCORER
Worried about roof of Rolls getting marked	SCARRED