The Times - Cryptic - November 16 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28136
Clues	Answers
A time for cooking, swallowing fish bones	METACARPI
Canteen in one area in Stoke to the west	NAAFI
Cart around jam that's a good standard	YARDSTICK
Cockney Bob, say, interrupting female’s call for equality	fair dos
Conservative member punching chair person high on face?	rock climber
Convey what wrong answers may do	get across
Defender about to overplay ball breaking leg	CHAMPION
Exhibiting bust key, holding pass	DECOLLETE
Full figure for one clad in Italian outfit	INTEGER
Goal that's one in a million	AIM
Heartless rogue stars in Dickens, say	REALIST
Hit runs during a defeat in sub-par performance	ALBATROSS
Intrude roughly to seize this person without warrant	UNMERITED
Joint operation all the rage on work posting	hip replacement
Legal documents Lawrence initially put in drawers	PATENTS
Maybe Bourbon queen's bored with sideboards	WHISKERY
Meal with Democrat going mental	INNER
Merchant banks to try out an account provider	STORYTELLER
One tends to make a dash with only half the energy	CARER
Passage south across the Atlantic	SINUS
Peer around state north of India's capital	NAIROBI
Quick-witted stage hero bags one grand in card game	FIGARO
Right iPhone broken, and no case for phone charger	RHINO
Scatter cream on wife	BESTREW
Shot frenetic Bourne film	Brief Encounter
Snake oil, say, in no way unusual	NOSTRUM
Something to depress Everton fans by English port?	red wine
Star squeezed into little girdle, pirouetting	RIGEL
Sweet food in steamer with a sour look about it	MOUSSE
Transport not fully occupied	BUS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2006
Clues	Answers
Ascetic American hiding in a tree, dishevelled	AUSTERE
Beat in court, briefly causing outcry	CLAMOUR
Clean area with dense vegetation	SCRUB
Correspondence on the up?	AIRMAIL
Decorum in dirty hovel, way above	MODESTY
Flush and terribly sorry, having lost heart	ROSY
Fool knocking container over	NIT
Fragrant old Dorothy has managed to get hugged	ODORANT
Imperfections __ bedding material must be sent back	WARTS
Like a new business celebrity meeting organised workers quietly	start-up
Make idle one react differently, slowing down	DECELERATION
Modern music king appearing in South Africa	SKA
More than one drink is bad, we hear	ALES
Not long ago, left-winger moved to the middle again	recentred
Odd drips around a fast-flowing stream	RAPIDS
Prepare for war __ notice a fleet prepared to attack our shores	ARMADA
Ringing sound in prison	CLINK
See land as focus of attention	SPOTLIGHT
Smart trick	STING
Strange bottom, bottom not to be seem!	RUM
Take no notice of Italian man heading off	IGNORE
Think about getting proficient, becoming hugely important	CONSIDERABLE
Utterly depressed, correct?	DOWNRIGHT
Wild beast's jaw	YAK
Wine provided in summer __ lots	MERLOT
You hope they won't be the thorns in your side!	team mates