The Times - Cryptic - December 24 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28169
Clues	Answers
Answer to go down badly after Mike's explosive threat	atomic bomb
Being high, high up, I hear, without oxygen	EUPHORIA
Boy right to crack jokes in finery	glad rags
Cheese put on a crossword setter's Japanese dish	EDAMAME
Dog's way to get in trouble with the RSPCA?	WHIPPET
Drink accompanying food with nothing in it	nip and tuck
Due to merge bizarrely with Legal & General	de gaulle
European skill behind film __ it enhances sounds	ear trumpet
Follower, what lady showing a lot of leg may have?	MINION
Free from charge after inconclusive unfair accusation	LIBERATE
Grace perhaps follows bad end for outlaw	ned kelly
Jittery neurotic around a time for gas explosion	ERUCTATION
Knock down leader of legion roughly on march	DEMOLISH
Noise you heard: communications with one rowing	UPROAR
Novel English magazine's contents cut back	EMMA
Obscure allusion picked up, getting harder to pick up	DIMINUENDO
Part of pin’s head turned up covered in glitter	SHINBONE
Poet's wretched trouble with a single romance yarn	Lorna Doone
Politician dropping round, engaging a cup-bearer, say	TRAY
Predator caught fabulous bird	CROC
Queen's partner’s stored knowledge is a minimal sham	TOKENISM
River keeping cool for convenience	URINAL
Rubbish on-line about cruel figure in Labour	nemean lion
Rush to box quietly with learner in bout	SPLURGE
Sign of eating too much toast suggested by this?	double chin
State what usually keeps being reflected	UTAH
Strip and rip off a French female's clothing	UNROBE
Writer has month to pen a work half-heartedly	NABOKOV
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2034
Clues	Answers
Bothering to keep railway for transporting	CARRYING
Comfortable place to prepare tea I pour finally	ARMCHAIR
Crazy solvers!	CRACKERS
Diamonds, maybe, found by detective sergeant beneath vehicle	CARDS
Dissolute characters from Govan in French city	AVIGNON
Do away with escort	take out
Dwarf hiding pennies in grass	HAPPY
Egg on lady, every so often getting first prize?	GOLD
Fine wines prepared eg in vats	VINTAGES
Frantically casing lot, yearning for the past	NOSTALGIC
Glossy publication, maybe one for the wise	MAGI
Hand in dictionary that’s left out	OMITTED
Here’s some gifts	PRESENTS
Holding a piece of hose	STOCKING
In the morning I turn to find friend	AMIGO
Large plant in theatre entrance	TREE
Long to have gym outside home	PINE
One ordered about ten cattle	OXEN
Printing measures used in English manuscript	EMS
Produce more eggs, perhaps, than expenditure	OUTLAY
Revolver originally used north of a NZ city	ROTORUA
Sings about luxury car with middle missing!	CAROLS
Something in night sky seen in deserts to the west	STAR
Teacher starts off shouting in room	SIR
Wintry weather in NSW: motors malfunctioning	SNOWSTORM
Wise, perhaps, to have, on reflection, some in reserve	ERNIE