The Times Cryptic June 2 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27993
Clues	Answers
A politician in socialist hue rushed around violently	RAMPED
Barge in season, heading off south east, beyond river	INTERPOSE
Devious devil, one sort of agent briefly turning to wit	VIDELICET
Drinks late on? They won't help you keep a cool head then	NIGHTCAPS
Exhausted author lying in street	SPENT
Fare to get across lake or swamp	FLOOD
Female performance promises to be divisive	FACTIOUS
Food in France perhaps a mother's cooked, full of energy	HORSEMEAT
Garbage left abandoned staff finally collected in interval	FIFTH
Get men into reorganising plant	MIGNONETTE
Good wood is cut	GASH
Hotel dealt with trouble, bringing acclaim	HAIL
Is daughter given order to follow women's good sense?	WISDOM
It's all right to interrupt one funny person or another	JOKESTER
Leaving the City area __ it's stifling outside	DECAMPING
London giant's journey featured in periodical	MAGOG
Maybe lost dog has run away for stick	STAY
Plain folk from the south irked, note, with everyone	LLANEROS
Poet taking time around end of autumn to find wild animal's domain	home range
Religiously committed school entertaining archdeacon with a set of holy books	covenanted
Residence of a German man of law	ABODE
Running late, trains can pose a problem?	TANTALISER
Said annual travelling around should be in part of Spain	ANDALUSIAN
Savage __ time to oust one, right?	VERACIOUS
Servant's goodbye coming with retirement finally	VALET
Session spanning winter months	TERM
Something attractive about holy person?	LUSTRE
Spooner's sentimentality, something sweet providing inducement	hush money
Tree in delta below river	TAMARIND
Wants to be sluggish, first to last	LACKS
What's crazy in a French female __ and maybe divine?	UNMADE
Wholehearted bore needing an audience	EAGER
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1887
Clues	Answers
Admire sceptre that's fake	RESPECT
Arena, attractive thing for opener	ring-pull
Brazilian steps into cheongsam bashfully	SAMBA
Briton back on his bed	SCOT
Dog leads on rumbustious Yorkies, mine	COLLIERY
Egyptian king or teacher	TUTOR
Force in London encountered	MET
Hawk in range, worm agitated	WARMONGER
Horse: might one be on the phone?	CHARGER
Intention to finish	END
National average inspiring cricket team, hundred following	MEXICAN
No bananas for wanderer	NOMAD
Passage runs into bar	EXCERPT
Piece of counterpoint, roughly a couple of bars to start	INTRO
Red fruit carpet also's covered	TOMATO
Reform of trades looked hard	STARED
Reportedly predominant state	MAINE
Roll of money?	BREAD
Served up, magnificent drink	LAGER
Something to swat with The Observer?	fly on the wall
Take courses perhaps in English following row	DINE
Ticket seller cooler after fight cancelled	box office
Top grade, as it happens, existing	ALIVE
Trouble with soldier, perhaps, brave	GALLANT
Unable to think clearly, that chap in Dirty Dancing	DITHERY
Wily father I suspect after power __ tempt fate	play with fire