The Times - Cryptic - December 2 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28150
Clues	Answers
Analyst left exposed initially by certain grey area?	concrete jungle
Barriers in sport?	FENCING
Boarding jet, one flier __ go on!	spit it out
Bottle or other vessel, put off to the periphery	DECANTER
Carol hosting summit __ at the lectern?	SPEAKING
Cheesy dish is trap snaring vermin	GRATIN
Cold, the capital briefly windy	APATHETIC
Current agreement faultless	IDEAL
Date character recited?	SEE
Explorer heading westward, company leaves	TOBACCO
Extremist caught by powerful trap	ULTRA
Footballer: tedious exercises still to do?	outside left
Hardened group	SET
Holder of blade, one fighting?	ROWER
I furiously tear into further performance	ITERATION
Impact on belly as breakfast arriving?	pancake landing
Italian soldiers carrying ammunition, originally stowed away in vessel	TUSCAN
Murdered, as is Christmas turkey?	STUFFED
One under surface, a group of arthropods	CRUSTACEA
Plugging great work, notice swagger	BRAVADO
Sabotage stock with first cut on fur	UNDERMINE
Small figure, nation investing payment finally, after day	STATUETTE
Striking, like Harold's arrow?	eye-catching
Suffering over love is welcome	HELLO
Swell, once, a leader of Tories, eclipsed by another politician	GREATEN
Tailor buttoning up fashionable, retro garment	TUNIC
Titanic coming to a halt at sea	AVAST
Town with pier one has left abandoned, somewhere in Wales?	NEWPORT
Translation of 'let's go', heading for Torremolinos __ 'vamoose!'	get lost
Wolf inhabiting lair, most dapper	NEATEST
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Clues	Answers
Brass instrument to annoy the French	BUGLE
Broken line that’s overlooked in commotion	BUSTLE
Build pressure, with outfits given to crew	get up steam
Comfortable seeing weapons returned	SNUG
Demo going round obscure London landmark	marble arch
Directors supporting trophy cabinet	CUPBOARD
Disjointed reverie about prisoner’s initial pardon	REPRIEVE
Fairground ride to be exciting in California	CAROUSEL
Green plastic ruined grave	resting place
Hard to find English active around us	ELUSIVE
Head of Government in control for period in office	REIGN
I brought in wall-painting, unusually large, back in well-lit room	SOLARIUM
Jungle, Amazonian, absorbing this flash of light	GLEAM
Large dull fellow to stand around idly	LOAF
Live on both sides in German city	BERLIN
Loud American ship creating bother	FUSS
Lover seen outside old city office	BUREAU
Noisy bang involved in opening light source	gas-lamp
Parliamentary procedure is not quite me, somehow	question time
Secretary getting employment and a rest	PAUSE
Shock about European legal process	APPEAL
Some film speed	CLIP
Temptation to snatch Charlie’s sordid gains	LUCRE
Very special microphone inlaid with silver	MAGIC