The Times - Cryptic - November 18 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28138
Clues	Answers
Annexe about to run into chalk ground	WHITING
Best garden party?	OUTDO
Bogey fault west of Paddington?	BUGBEAR
Chamber piece too much involving two separate keys	OCTET
Concerned with a Conservative's regular turns	REPERTORY
Conflict in unruly bar row involving ecstasy	Boer War
Dean not including verse in passage	ALLEY
English spread out around Cape to destroy	ERADICATE
Figure month must lead to endless anguish	DECAGON
Friend's gone __ I'm back inside	AMIGO
Gradually destroy fuel element in reactor's heart	CORRODE
Happy to direct how refugees are often accommodated	CONTENTED
Minister's adviser regularly gets suit	SPADES
Old heating unit bust after time	THERM
Old still drink with doctor in charge	ALEMBIC
One __ and he spends freely __ showing this?	open-handedness
Perhaps May's second day, all very endless and black	modal verb
Post Office note about label showing cost of carriage	PORTAGE
Risk damage when drilling patent bucket?	OVERTRAIN
Roused to manoeuvres round King's royal emblem	Tudor rose
Show disapproval about tango and current music everyone plays	TUTTI
Society dramatist of Elizabethan times in the manner of Fox	SLYLY
Some years supporting males in household	MENAGE
Song at cricket ground such as Worcester and Oxford?	Lords Spiritual
Stupid American encountered outside a dance	MEATBALL
Trouble holding double plastic bomb	DOODLEBUG
What comes in handy in golfing final	DYING
What makes one feel more able, say, to put up rent	ego trip
What's part of beach life? Eros, perhaps	ASTEROID
Witnesses lone rooks flying	lookers-on
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2008
Clues	Answers
Absence of chess player, missing start	LACK
After restoration adore old place, fabulous	el dorado
Almost all of plan referring to births rejected as a sham	CHARLATAN
Also in scheme __ group of soldiers	PLATOON
An assertion, outspoken, getting praise	ACCLAIM
At the outset innovative agreement is perfect	IDEAL
Bet sporting contest's captivating Brazil's wingers	GAMBLE
Bringing back best trophy	POT
Church council's case for Sunday: sign of agreement follows	SYNOD
Connect learner with writing material	LINK
Extend short programme covering half of our capital	PROLONG
Having restricted Southern girl, face sack	DISMISSAL
Hope to include sailors, very good apparently, in lively dance	HORNPIPE
Imported by Mykonos, healthy food	NOSH
In Oman see where Minister lives	MANSE
Knockabout fun as her ploy goes wrong	HORSEPLAY
List flight manoeuvre	ROLL
Mag laden with scorn involved this guy?	SCANDALMONGER
Margaret briefly referred to fixture for hanging	PEG
One featured in theatre area for long period in the past	Stone Age
One observing son at door maybe?	SENTRY
Partner's argument against __ so right!	CONSORT
She has medals mixed up	DAMSEL
To be heard, I yell for cold sweet	ice cream
Upcoming student's mistake	slip-up
Watchful as lazy employee reads tabloid at first	ALERT