The Times - Cryptic - November 22 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2010
Clues	Answers
Berliner, perhaps, almost suitable	GERMAN
Bishop at hotel in West Country city	BATH
Contest the writer would finally leave: it’s late in the day	EVENTIDE
Court without officials to begin with	WOO
Daughter in bar with Italian robber	BANDIT
Drinking-vessel’s small mouth?	GOBLET
Entertained underwater explorer, male	DIVERTED
Exam held in manor, always	ORAL
Expression used in Outer Mongolia	TERM
Extend across top of seagoing vessel	SPAN
Fellow sailor transported him as pet	SHIPMATE
Fussy type covers front of ledger with adhesive label	STICKLER
Huge part of London, by the sound of it	WHOPPING
Manage to be straightforward	DIRECT
Marine animal’s nasty smell __ in sea, mostly	SPONGE
Married in former nurse’s part of Scandinavia	SWEDEN
Part of body originally protecting ‘the King’?	PELVIS
Reduced price for salad ingredient	COS
Salutation knocked back graduate, sad to say	SALAAM
Small vessel seen in Channel Island	SARK
Soft cheese fly must abandon shortly	BRIE
Source of bananas, a blessing for a monkey	BABOON
Sudden increase in twilled fabric, we hear	SURGE
Surpass old cubicle, so to speak	EXCEL
Way out, for example, on ship	EGRESS
We hear girl studied a South American snake	ANACONDA
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28141
Clues	Answers
A crude tablet possibly erected in place of worship	GURDWARA
A maiden encountered with hesitation __ one sitting in the physics lab?	AMMETER
Admire a carer, endlessly out to bring friendship	CAMARADERIE
After short time cricket side gets significant number of runs	TON
Be silent now about member's trouble	tennis elbow
Bird gathering fruit	BRAMBLING
Bit of speech conveyed by telephone message	PHONEME
Bitterness must be managed with inadequate legal organisation	RANCOUR
Care to protect church ground	MINCED
Dad is one looking untidy __ given a coat	ANODISED
Demonstrates quietly and goes here and there	PROVES
Fellow attending one finding accompaniment for 4?	CHAPATI
Fruit plantation in old farm close to railway	ORANGERY
Girl showing ambition, on the up	MIA
Good-looking girl gets ring __ first sign of engagement	BELLE
Gruff son watched what his deferential sister might have done?	CURTSEYED
Head of school deficient, not working hard enough	Slacking
Host not right to appear in minimal attire?	THONG
Immature insect in mountain flower, right inside	LARVA
Meal produced by one grandmother __ little girl tucks in	INDIAN
Notice learner receiving star presented by officer	ADMIRAL
Occupying position of king in charge of subject	TOPIC
Person with bad manners and humour brought to head to give evidence	bear witness
Produced fabricated info about American university	LIMITED
Refusing to acknowledge drinking, is getting drunk	DISOWNING
Small island needing a technology for modern communications	AIT
This writer initially looking depressed becomes cheery	MELLOW
Tibet always appears to be such an answer for a particular health problem?	beta-blocker
Tot upset sick, having swallowed hot drink in theatre	music hall
Very briefly, I spoilt child, having got old and wobbly	VIBRATO
Virgin shows skills, overtaking old record company	ARTEMIS
What I can do for ’Arry!	EAR