The Times - Cryptic - September 1 2021 Crossword Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28071
Clues	Answers
A very good person protecting you up to now	as yet
Away from home a long time when torches may be necessary?	OUTAGES
Being most scatty, gets confused about identity one way and another	GIDDIEST
Bet there will be no turning back __ eager not to stop	YANKEE
Bitter writer sitting beneath tree	ACERBIC
Daughter is getting behind __ almost a total failure?	DISASTER
Device I would obtain to prop up top of window	WIDGET
Evidence in court set up __ Athenian guilty finally	TESTIMONY
Foot in fixed position before toe is manipulated	TOOTSIE
Formula for getting bed assembled	BANDED
Go down and see graduate getting certificate	DIPLOMA
Guard at church coming between wife and husband?	WATCHMAN
Label certain notes "of uncertain authenticity"	DUBIOUS
Manage to catch last of criminals in wood	COPSE
On account of two playing together love ensues	due to
Outstanding hospital department with parts separated by tunnel	EMINENT
Pain of second celebrity landing outside hospital	BACKACHE
Pair carrying old item of furniture easy to get to the skip?	PORTABLE
Partners, kind to get involved in tricks	CONSORTS
Pastoral deity __ dull-looking or a dish?	PANDOWDY
Phony prince initially about to get offer	PRETENDER
Place of many races where you'll see a northerner	ASCOT
Quality of one smashing seductress I've not lovelessly abandoned	destructiveness
Roundabout way Times gets free access?	BYPASS
Scot had to appear nasty about English and Poles	CATHODES
Sigh with a debate rambling: an expression of annoyance	whats the big idea
Some chap, a bloke making a name in Spain	PABLO
Something to eat when one of the minions entertains king?	PRAWN
Time of festival __ Rev's looking silly in tricorn maybe	HARVEST
Young magician with the ultimate in spooky craft	POTTERY
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1952
Clues	Answers
Article Rosie emptied in that place	THERE
Bit of a word quietly by referee, and football team retreating	PREFIX
Bluish-grey pan	SLATE
Boss meets key member where horses are bred	stud farm
Brandished baking ingredient one dropped	FLOURISHED
Bury __ popular market, quite popular ultimately	INTER
Central sections of park tidy and dry	ARID
Cry of bird bearing large talon	CLAW
Desmond initially knowing best type of computer	DESKTOP
Each gang around noon receiving payment for work	EARNING
Fake art's sculpted by European unknown	ERSATZ
Fireplace large, we hear	GRATE
In contest, he taunted Greek character	THETA
Irritable newsman Gary's outside	EDGY
Is the suspect, after drink knocked back, most aggressive?	PUSHIEST
Ladies and Gents south of Waterloo vacant	WOMEN
Lame inspector's guided by Jack	DISABLED
Like to broadcast new author	TOLKIEN
Make-up remains on daughter, hastily and carelessly done	SLAPDASH
Move equipment __ upset artist's pet perhaps	BUDGERIGAR
One of five kids with constant energy gets fruit	QUINCE
Printing mistake, rare, unsettled corporation	ERRATUM
Religious adherent's tunic regularly appeared in joke	JESUIT
Reluctant individual overlooking an area of Scotland	LOTHIAN
Rubbish book found in outbuilding	GARBAGE
Scrap a safety test, on reflection	ATOM