The Times - Cryptic - August 26 2021 Crossword Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28066
Clues	Answers
A snooty sort erected current plant	BONSAI
Annoying hack working, missing nothing	NAGGING
Attlee's and Mr Eden's revised appropriate appellation?	elder statesmen
Baltic golf learners welcoming a bunch of spies	GLACIAL
Base trickery takes in husband for now	MEANWHILE
Big boxer stumped believer in Murphy's Law?	FATALIST
Corpulent sags I reconstructed?	plastic surgeon
Delayed using horse past its best?	on hold
Desperate stand by dump	last-ditch
Despicable type's excessively large growth capped	TOADSTOOL
Graduates collect ten grand for green fuel	BIOGAS
Immaculate story about extremely lousy trifle	lily-white
It grows down river in Germany	EIDER
It's another place to peer, for example	house of commons
Kind acts somehow filling familiar role	TYPECAST
One's present part of course entertains Poles	TENSE
Oxford college or one the Spanish added	ORIEL
Perhaps watch sphere from the south	TIMER
Release Blue Berets with roles on way north	UNSTRAP
Sign a posh wig should be returned by end of day	AUGURY
Smug head office tour in health resort	holier-than-thou
Sponsor a northern set	ANGEL
Staunch Arab, back installing a place for sweaters	steam room
Temperature aside, glass is protecting hot young flyer	CHRYSALIS
Time fitted in to brush each scented plant	sweet pea
Two features in green type of camera	PINHOLE
What occupant of 25 does, with mixture in vessel	SWELTERS
X marks this first in English, zero in the three Rs	ERROR
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1948
Clues	Answers
Anecdote beginning to shock Conservative	STORY
Completely gave up nicotine at the end	QUITE
Downfall caused by murder in a French gîte, primarily	UNDOING
Downright incompetent?	UNQUALIFIED
Enthusiasm shown during quizzes there	ZEST
Extra short on top of beer brings confidence	MORALE
Hit wood on Birkdale's first	BASH
Jewel box presented by King Lear, Cordelia ultimately rejected	SPARKLER
Large drink on American's bill to verify	double-check
Large Italian male, loose-limbed	LITHE
Left after outstanding contest	DUEL
Lethargy shown in Iran tie, unexpectedly	INERTIA
Love a rye __ buy supply, with permission from you	by your leave
Luxurious hotel not appearing to give credit	PLUS
Mean to collect brief legal document towards the end of the day?	TWILIGHT
One is blown to produce sound	NOISE
Remarkable bar next to Hebridean island lake	EXCEPTIONAL
Taken by surprise, the old lady retired, exhausted	AMBUSHED
Talk at length about GI's cryptic puzzle	JIGSAW
Talk spitefully about side with incisiveness	BACKBITE
Thick soup cowherd prepared	CHOWDER
Toy weapon on edge of seat	TRIFLE
Trim conifer	SPRUCE
Woman who expects to succeed?	HEIRESS