The Times - Cryptic - January 17 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28189
Clues	Answers
Actually, excellent performer has run off	de facto
Copper perhaps, crashing tractor into drink	TERRACOTTA
Country memorial housing a tavern	REPUBLIC
Declining to accept a lot of commotion __ genuine about that	REFUSAL
Dessert needing Chartreuse __ lots __ sloshed	charlotte russe
Dressing medic must stock indeed	MAYO
Exotic lover? Over being embraced by a Martian that's besotted	INAMORATA
Forward missing header collared by supporter with a keen eye	ALERTLY
Get ready to shoot a picture, opening mostly depicting crow	cock-a-doodle-doo
Give less attention to Northern Irish drama?	DOWNPLAY
Goes off climbing, keeping to a higher level in sort of fog?	STUPOR
Love, in different ways, being swamped in a lake's spray	AEROSOL
Monotonous sound of personnel in corporation	THRUM
Observe __ it's acceptable to block fool	look on
Old King heading for European conflict in days	EDWARD
Operations in stern or other part of vessel	TOPSAIL
Press to join mature holiday scheme	PACKAGE
Rascal in time will make mistakes	ERRATA
Ready to complain, losing head	RIPE
Recalled brief comment about hot TV show	TELETHON
Recording movement of yacht around river	TRACK
Reduced charge securing very large article with little sparkle?	PROSAIC
Shortage of staff restricting chores when working in nursery	PRESCHOOL
Slowly move cart backwards, attaining timber store	LUMBERYARD
Source of protection potentially rickety and unstable	security blanket
Story of boy's encounter with animal, domestic one __ he went for lad, unfortunately	peter and the wolf
Subsequent payment, though not in regard to student	FRESHER
Youth, or one coming in fresh?	MINORITY
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2050
Clues	Answers
Academic taking E is finished	DONE
After ten years National Trust in state of decline	DECADENT
Article about Middle East setback? That's the idea	THEME
At end of his tether, as Dan famously was?	DESPERATE
Band's origin	GENESIS
Beastly female guide chucking Henry out	SOW
Bill blowing top on occasion with daughter? That's inappropriate	ill-timed
Card game making you cross?	BRIDGE
Circus performer to make a run for it, I hear	FLEA
Drunken star dies in accident	DISASTER
Escort about to arrest couple from the east	RETINUE
For this reason monster is upset	ERGO
I start to complain and step back: it's very cold	ice cap
Idiot whose whereabouts are a puzzle?	WALLY
Instrument Scotsman found in river	PIANO
Misbehaving peer loves to have a lie-in	OVERSLEEP
Official's real income misrepresented	CEREMONIAL
One making a great show, on the pull at Christmas?	DASHER
Ruin a French party	UNDO
Secluded spot for a break	RECESS
Shrug off Sid coming back with unmarried woman	DISMISS
Terminated some of proven dedication	ENDED
The samurai somehow becoming clumsy	AMATEURISH
Think about Mafia boss keeping fit	dwell on
Use heroin regularly for a long time	EON
What secret agent might use to see schooner?	SPYGLASS