The Times - Cryptic - November 2 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28124
Clues	Answers
A large pest keeps quiet in poor accommodation	ALMSHOUSE
Anyone check about sleuth with hound?	tom dick and harry
Appear to control car trade	COMMERCE
Constituent very nearly claims overtime	VOTER
Convincing the Yorkshire pianist to shed weight	TELLING
Cool quartet in past maybe concentrated	INTENSIVE
Cut across road following flag's course	Irish stew
Distance, say, a cart must be raised	YARDAGE
Forget your woes __ plug in the mobile	lighten up
French consul's personal refusal to admit a European	NAPOLEON
Good book in head office beginning to cause mayhem	HAVOC
Her mascot displayed front cover once	STOMACHER
Hold firm’s ambassador in centre	COHERE
Holding back on shelter before a quarter past four	RETENTIVE
Idle investor makes a hash of representing pal	sleeping partner
King George the Sixth appearing in poster with child	GRAVID
Mean northern cardinal blocks passport for one	INTEND
Our group at university tracks shark's activity	USURY
Perhaps tablet's best after drink	LAPTOP
Plan to avoid returning after school	SCHEDULE
Plot against father assuming power	CONSPIRE
Protective wear an essential part of Inca's quest	casques
Sanction representative, old, visiting the jug	EMPOWER
Small copper line on celebrity's dishwasher?	SCULLION
Spot conservationists with a primary food supplier	PLACENTA
Tot's vocal power	MIGHT
Twist finding family at the heart of Dickens	KINK
Upset, your party hosts stop talking	dry up
Venetian school master ignores current big noise	TITAN
Wuss in mummy's pocket primarily?	WIMP
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1996
Clues	Answers
Account for former partner of homely aspect	EXPLAIN
Afflicted former nurse concealing subterfuge	STRICKEN
Amphibian gets kicked, by the sound of it	TOAD
Anxiety caused by arrest	APPREHENSION
Bridge-player missing beginning of banquet	EAST
Danger of rising anger in political extremists	PERIL
Deadly obstruction originally hampering almost everyone	LETHAL
Fashionable church feature dean primarily motivated	INSPIRED
Fruit-tree one of five arriving together with Civil Engineer	QUINCE
Go across island, reaching Italian city	TURIN
International organisation thus filling in agreement	UNISON
Mission in Paris that served travellers principally	QUEST
Not many, they say? That’s a relief	PHEW
Offender’s supper finally eaten by chef	CROOK
One-sided version of a Latin rule	UNILATERAL
Photograph game	SNAP
Politician vexed over new church stopping alcoholic drink	cross-bencher
Redemption money a children’s author talked of	RANSOM
Room in taxi on the left	CABIN
Small amount of study initially having importance	SMATTERING
Songbird Greek character found on roofing material	NUTHATCH
Uncrystallised sugar produced by Missouri girls	MOLASSES
Woman with record showing farm animals	SHEEP
Woman’s husband caught in fire, perhaps	HEATHER