The Times - Cryptic - November 4 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28126
Clues	Answers
Advocate English article following French article	APOSTLE
Allocate grand in passing, without setting limits	ASSIGN
Artist restrained by injunction after misbehaviour of lead star	ALDEBARAN
Blokes in British bird group showing confusion	BEMUSEMENT
Directors supporting rise of classic pub feature	DARTBOARD
Download track from opera with note from bank?	RIPARIAN
Encouraging period of work penning most of Disney film	STIMULANT
Fanciful stage production abandoned by university after initially warm welcome	WHIMSICAL
Feeling smart about Conservative account	SCORE
Fool with club that’s found in trunk	SAPWOOD
Good thing for Aussie, heading off, about to go to a restaurant	eat out
Grounds mostly for keeping abundant supply in bar	ESTAMINET
Hot sweet endlessly served up for associate	HOBNOB
I slump awkwardly, embraced by man, irresistible	COMPULSIVE
Imperial advisor not quite ill-advised to enter	RASPUTIN
Institute a bit less disorganised when set beside hospital	ESTABLISH
Is no longer hot in thin coat	WASH
Knot in whip leads to gossip	CHITCHAT
Lowlife heading for major argument, but held back	WORM
Mathematical statement converted into memorable hit briefly	binomial theorem
Our team may keep one piano clean	WIPE
Significantly increase nonsense about Liberal	TRIPLE
Source of exchange rate unchanged? It’ll get attention	EMPHASIS
Speech problem keeps one in care of a parent	APHASIA
State supporting China in discussion	PALAVER
This hole designed to stash billions, in principle	SHIBBOLETH
Tolerate erasing Romeo in script	BOOK
Vile of French, having photo framed in black	DESPICABLE
Writer not ultimately adopted by Andersen?	DANTE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1998
Clues	Answers
A cute, unusual, pistol, originally __ might it be filled with gunpowder?	TEACUP
A spirited author?	GHOSTWRITER
Adequate swimmer gulping oxygen?	FAIRISH
Asian influence ultimately in holy text	KOREAN
Attempt to keep tail cool	TRENDY
Begin to accommodate first of undergraduates in royal house	STUART
Bronzed skin fading on a trip in Argentina?	TANGOING
Cap half on in swimming pool	LIDO
Country also in a mess	LAOS
European payment taken on the phone?	CZECH
Fashionable, how one might take one's gin?	with-it
Flower in Agadir, I see	IRIS
Fruit boy found behind barrier	DAMSON
Hot inside particular nook	NICHE
Huge name, gargantuan to some extent	MEGA
Item for breakfast, baloney	WAFFLE
Journalists in Dorset I fancy	EDITORS
Quite beautiful	PRETTY
Relative in European resort, by the sound of it?	NIECE
Reportedly, I saw a sight!	EYESORE
River circled by pilot, I gathered, in capital city	TRIPOLI
Talk: problem in Persian, for example?	CHITCHAT
Theorist in nineties, surprisingly	EINSTEIN
Tory footballer?	right-winger
Various roasted nuts, including last of peanuts	ASSORTED
Version of Tosca somewhere in Berkshire	ASCOT