The Times - Cryptic - October 4 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28099
Clues	Answers
A girl who grew to accept university's stiff examination	AUTOPSY
After first of blunders, game's completely gone	BLOTTO
Apathetic, as unplanned shopping trip, perhaps?	LISTLESS
Article from newspaper, possibly, sharp	CUTTING
Ask for worshipper in speech?	SEEK
Best in fish for cooker	COSTARD
Buff head	NUT
Call on salt to be shifted that's found in wine glass	CRYSTAL
Company, they say, that takes anything back	TWO
Crime ignored in conflict, unhappy at old African leader	Anwar Sadat
Endorse token gesture	COUNTERSIGN
Erase date	take out
Farm building in Epping, converted	PIGPEN
Female swiping a very precious stone	GIRASOL
Finally fading, dim light	GLOW
Glue, for example, in black	SOLVENT
Imply close	INTIMATE
In hot pants topless lady dresses	at home
Knock down all skittles, wrong when set up for game	deck tennis
Large group equipped with members, might you say?	ARMY
League leaders in battle lost, of course	BLOC
Moments after tight game	TIDDLYWINKS
Nip on part of face by a rodent	CHINCHILLA
Note meaning expressed verbally?	TENNER
Opener's uncontrolled movement, breaking white sports club	hockey stick
Page in contract on a security system	CAPTCHA
Passion gone, start talking!	fire away
Priest, upstanding resident of council estate?	ELI
Refrain from keeping staff closer?	screw top
Sect missing the first of last month in brief	ULT
Thrilling to catch cold	nail-biting
Weakness arrivin'?	SHORTCOMING
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1975
Clues	Answers
A second husband's remains	ASH
Austere city state once, not all in South Africa	SPARTA
Consume refreshments initially in the Criterion, perhaps	THEATRE
Corrected English males, old-fashioned	EMENDATED
Cutting tool one of two PMs reportedly observed	PITSAW
Don't accept note with sweet I consumed	REPUDIATE
Film about female amphibian	EFT
Get rid of stunted vegetation	SCRUB
He painted innocents originally gobbled up by giant	TITIAN
Horrify a namesake of Revere when speaking	APPAL
Horse having drink by entrance to orchard?	PINTO
In maturity some soldiers see eye to eye	AGREE
Irritate a small number in US city	ANNOY
Large French resort visited by European relative	great-niece
One putting up with moving to art role	TOLERATOR
Openness of projectable photo?	TRANSPARENCY
Person singing some forgotten oratorio	TENOR
Press employee, sort with dog in tow	TYPESETTER
Small talk primarily concerning manufacturer of headgear	CHATTER
Utter anarchy at first in outskirts of Sydney	SAY
Vertically challenged worker's system of writing?	SHORTHAND
Way wet weather produces stress	STRAIN
What criminal offences may not be, but some batteries are?	rechargeable
Young relative __ one that shines, we hear	SON