The Times - Cryptic - January 25 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28196
Clues	Answers
A little gem is only paste	MISO
An hour in sleep, that's short for most retiring	SHIEST
Appointment offers fortune, on paper	time slot
Died fighting shark for example of unusual size	DWARFISH
Down with heroin? Shame!	ABASH
Fairly broad pepper pot, for one	WIDISH
Fancy their sister, one with long hair	Irish setter
Form bad character, the way some artists work	from nature
Front half of bicycle is a shade of brown	TAN
Greeting from the person that put round collector's item?	what ho
Group of animals bidding farewell to paradise?	EDENTATA
Hesitate, being lawyer, to put husband last	um and ah
Horse roundly beaten in fearful fashion	HORRENDOUSLY
Hostile soldier maybe touching one arrested	ANTIPATHETIC
In a small pond, picked up litres in wooden butt	april fool
Like some fruit, orange finally having fallen open	CANDID
Make footballers out of form fear cut	MANUFACTURE
Narrative about love in classical speech	RELATION
Pleased room of horrors is filled with large blooms	GLADIOLI
Pressure in narrow opening causes rupture	SPLIT
Race round, part of a dash	SPEEDO
Staff's shaggy hair cut	MAN
Standard placed at south pole	SPAR
Star laughing about for example receiving diamonds	red giant
Take meal at a sort of bar and be humiliated	eat crow
Twice make knight's move? Not me	BISHOP
Under the influence, neighbours at table were singing	ENCHANTED
Wants linen laundered, several sets here maybe	lawn tennis
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2056
Clues	Answers
A profit one more time	AGAIN
Amazing soul encapsulating actor Gene	BEWILDERING
An instrumental Shakespearean character?	VIOLA
Bequeathed property ending in garbage, say	ESTATE
Crispy biscuit __ or “gatea”?	SHORTCAKE
Drop tool	AXE
Everyone in denial, lately	ALL
Female name in song?	CAROL
Fix us some dessert	MOUSSE
Gossip just as wicked, initially	JAW
Happening all the time, batting stances requiring adjustment	INCESSANT
He's fit: man working in tunnel underground	MINESHAFT
Information on the floor?	low-down
Item as set out in rough calculations	ESTIMATES
Jack and I have a dance	JIVE
Lass ate appalling condiment, perhaps?	sea salt
Least good street behind terrace knocked over	WORST
Northeast Shetland worried about conclusion of mother country	NETHERLANDS
Person recording this finally gets to the point	TAPERS
Relevant language, English	GERMANE
Sad, like some eyes	BLUE
Seat sis mended breaks in Spain	SIESTAS
Sign of fierce animal returning in jumbo, elephant	LEO
Terrific athletes originally with advanced skill	TALENT
Two items of underwear, most daring	BRAVEST
Where might one check in? Look left	AIRPORT