The Times - Cryptic - December 29 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28173
Clues	Answers
Bird in cage: crime considering that won't open	battery hen
Book, far from brilliant, cut	MATTHEW
Communist march	TROT
Controlling minister, one punching face	DIRECTORIAL
Cooks taking requests from diners eg keep taking the tablets	doctors orders
Country where some litter scattered	timor-leste
Cycle round capital of Italy — or somewhere to the north	TURIN
Develop complex	ELABORATE
Difference in body having struck head	TIFF
Exhilarated seeing books on the top shelf?	lit up
Flash Croatian deputy?	split second
Great runner has run off after felon	CONGO
Gripped by film, therapist struck by western	shrink-wrapped
Hope setting sun inspires girl visiting university	RURITANIA
Judge and reader glower?	REFLECTOR
Metal jacket of interrogator being worn	IRON
On twenty-four hours earlier, old magistrate	REEVE
Pair of decisions favouring bowler confirmed	out-and-out
Peacock: it goes flying around	EGOIST
Runner quietly failing to jump	SKI
Shaft ending in channel secured by tool	AXLE
Some fashionistas smoke dope	ASS
Sweet paintings etc gallery put back in container	tarte Tatin
Too much womaniser of course ultimately breaking hearts, say?	SURFEIT
Warning about British prince	ALBERT
Where tester found parent snaffling page belonging to us?	four-poster
Worried surgeon clasping cold sponge	SCROUNGE
Wrecked, came to	TOTALLED
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2037
Clues	Answers
Activity that involves putting sensible car around trendy island	miniature golf
Angler's fine with one tank	FISHERMAN
Bar snack from floor being picked up	NUTS
Beginning of retirement in brilliant piece of land	ACRE
Boredom of nine running around university	ENNUI
Drama with old partner is tiresome	EXACTING
Filming location is ready to go	SET
Friendly drink	CORDIAL
Funny ringtone is a gas!	NITROGEN
Gone swimming near a port in Italy	GENOA
Husband absorbed by observing a trifle	NOTHING
Infatuated sweetheart, initially, with glove	SMITTEN
Insulting attack	OFFENSIVE
Large property's broken tea set	ESTATE
Love endless river	NIL
Masked assassin is somewhat forlorn in jail	NINJA
Messily eating African stew	TAGINE
Met was at training for American police squad	swat team
Old pet turned over Mexican dish	TACO
Old soldier and successful batsman?	CENTURION
Piano teacher holding back school	ETON
Reportedly from Northern Europe? Close!	FINISH
Small insect on a Christmas visitor	SANTA
Two beers, maybe, for dance	CANCAN
Unrivalled, but lacking nobility?	PEERLESS
US city fashionable in the past	CHICAGO