The Times Cryptic June 25 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28013
Clues	Answers
About to drop stick	CLEAVE
After pub fire, finish off wine	BARSAC
Brief way to classify rum	STRANGE
Call The Oval every so often	HOA
Chap in East London semi	ALF
Clear run into bay	BRIGHT
Dance music recalled in haikus, oddly	SKA
Delivers products	YIELDS
Dodgy adverts fish for items in transmission	drive shafts
European town takes little time to track 500 weapons	DARMSTADT
Famous victory boy breaking records noted expressions of admiration	love-songs
Hibernian second team showing guts, finding area for crossing?	irish sea
Imagine two girls getting mixed up?	FANCY
In endless crawl, old wino consumed oily liquid	CREOSOTE
Lack of clarity in firm about cuts therefore	INCOHERENCE
Lecherous female took chair by unknown artist	satyra
Me ram's horny, moving around sheep	romney marsh
Mostly charge language group	INDIC
One in charge having dog roll over	CURATOR
Pan placed to hold ice	SKILLET
Polish knight has gone blue	SAD
Queen's consort needing diplomacy from east to keep order	TOMCAT
Second- or higher-level gear?	hand-me-downs
Spread last bit of sour pickle around	STREW
Strengthen means of controlling stallion?	REINFORCE
Supply yard shut for 24 hours	THURSDAY
Telegraph characters sent over in Times Roman	MORSE
The most built-up BBC party repeatedly curtailed	BEEFIEST
Thingumajigs go amiss when article drops off	GISMOS
Tough Henry going over freezing plain	hard nut
Try an overdue alternative	ENDEAVOUR
Uniform has got carried outside boundary	BOURNE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1904
Clues	Answers
A gentle eccentric, dignified and graceful	ELEGANT
Bedpan Alex ordered that can be enlarged	expandable
Beer or tea makers have dropped the first two jugs	EWERS
Boy clutching twisted ankle in English national park	LAKELAND
Closely follow mother's principles	DOGMA
Fiancée, finally, bound to run off secretly	ELOPE
Honey from bee? Well, finally	MEL
Huge land mass, like one close to Africa	ASIA
Liqueur drunk at a fair	RATAFIA
Monthly, perhaps, miners getting large bottle	MAGNUM
Move stealthily from front of boat at length	PROWL
Musical works about New Testament __ a task unfinished	CANTATAS
Protect piece oddly only appearing in verse	POETIC
Put off, with bombs laid? Resolute!	DETERMINED
Raise a ring, ecstatic	cock-a-hoop
Record thanks at start of gym class	TAPE
Rubbish I used to kick?	my foot
Sadly admit none put up for post?	NOMINATED
Songbird cut half of this fly	THRUSH
Staff removing the last of stacks	MAN
Took a pistol, cornering wild mammals	OKAPIS
True about first half of semi being close again	RESEAL
Turned up a copper in standard old money	DUCATS
Wide-sleeved garment in khaki __ monochrome	KIMONO