The Times - Cryptic - December 7 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28154
Clues	Answers
A fish together with a fish jelly	agar-agar
An African country with a youth backing religious leader	Dalai Lama
Bottle just about right to be knocked back?	NERVE
Calm grew outside European Parliament	REPOSE
Chap hugging in the manner of greeting	SALAAM
Composer's live recording originally taking place in large city	WEBERN
Cutting about a hard religious leader	CALIPH
First item of news on the radio?	NOVEMBER
Friend's gone __ I'm back inside	AMIGO
Harassed following force when protected by rocky citadel	AFFLICTED
Idea about funny cat album is moving when not self-aware	noctambulation
Letter removing tons from disgrace	SIGMA
Observe daughter pressure nobleman for gem	seed pearl
Ordinary coarse fish dive around men	common-or-garden
Parking in cover having a lot of small trees	copsy
Period of mourning for god	SHIVA
Press opportunity to move over European statesman	iron chancellor
Protestor to criticise distinctive TV feature	DISSIDENT
Queen in shot with heads of Europe's nobles and even Maggie, for one?	LEADERENE
Remaining exam taken again __ with the time cut __ in two parts	RESIDUAL
Rod's in bar with one car designer	BUGATTI
Something very good seen back in Dudley Zoo days	DOOZY
Trembling, as in plume fern	asplenium
Trendy drink reported in business __ this can affect markets	insider trading
United pea and tofu in blending soup	pot-au-feu
United States under old tyrant is oppressive	ONEROUS
Washed-out end to our month in Italian city	PALERMO
What's found in central Bolivia __ one new mineral	OLIVINE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2021
Clues	Answers
Attack tree-hugging oaf	lash out
Awful rat, Spain supporter	PARTISAN
Backing achieved today	NOW
Belgian city banishing an idiot	TWERP
Boy slips all over the place, perhaps	POSSIBLY
Check river in Hampshire	TEST
Cold in head of boy going fast	BRACING
Darwin's survivors set it out in newspaper	FITTEST
Different part of America: no, the reverse	ANOTHER
Embrace Cambridgeshire city in a big way	HUGELY
Equality inspires leaders on official list in opposition	POLARITY
Fortune made breaking the law	WEALTH
More dull, rug sent back by Queen	TAMER
One side went	LEFT
Ordinary park	COMMON
Penny I invested in bust we chose, artwork on display	SHOWPIECE
Posh nuts in store	SHOP
Round chapel Sir dashed	SPHERICAL
Sign one's expecting minor collision	BUMP
Sound feature: one installed	NOISE
Surrender? I don't know!	give up
Sweet little thing	TRIFLE
Swimming in water after ending in brook, jumpers say?	KNITWEAR
Time to access food in tin, for example	METAL
Very damp, old township	SOWETO
Young setter, maybe, changing nothing by going back?	PUP