The Times - Cryptic - February 15 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28214
Clues	Answers
Apropos hoax, laugh, oddly reflecting “we'd give it a whirl!”	hula hoop
Athlete, exhausted and quiet, having not qualified	shot-putter
Bill after turning from gas is steep	BATHE
Chance you usually won't have material	EARTHLY
Correspondent's twenty-four hours in federal jail to finish	pen friend
Demanding to have top lowered, is obliged	OUGHT
Dicky this time is buttonholed by club bore	WITHSTOOD
Ducks out of mounting charity events around university	SUGAR
Extended call for peace involving a foreign ruler	SHAH
Furniture item that now needs repair	WHATNOT
Game personnel in industrial heartland	RUHR
Group of countries meeting slight problem separate	UNHITCH
I say ring for the blessed commander!	HALOGEN
In agreement lasting sixty seconds, dissent's beginning	of one mind
Launches into reason for 27?	OPENS
Maybe miss a year's events, all but the last	ANNA
N African king's daughter embraced by goddess	IDRIS
One often hailed as the new Verdi in California — British!	CABDRIVER
Plant that's excessively puffed up, but not round	VERVAIN
Pops out with Laurel for numerous functions	all-purpose
Put back in control, thanks primarily to our boss?	REINSTATED
Romantic poet translated stories about the heart in Latin	ROSSETTI
Scold, in time, one for cooking the books	TERMAGANT
Shark fighters in Jaws: film replacing a western	JETS
Short promotion by female that features in build-up	HYPHEN
So the swine's going back to work, protecting home and family	OINKING
Swimmer, one you catch sleeping with leading lady	Zander
Thus having easily passed acid test, getting buzz	PHONE
Uproar about cryptics being cut back	OUTCRY
Violent confrontation to experience: I'm slapped on the face	AFTERSHAVE
What's for watching you might think outside	the box
Winger having edge on kid	CHAFFINCH
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2071
Clues	Answers
A lot of dirt is ghastly	GRIM
A Parisian brought up a couple of lines without significance	NULL
A thing about boarding old British plane	OBJECT
Comedian's mocking cry absorbing street	JESTER
Confused everybody offshore?	all at sea
Declining to accept sources of any really hoary old theatre piece?	war horse
Good individual no longer with us	GONE
Last characters in church to feel godly or saintly	HOLY
Maker of uniforms possibly to follow common soldiers	TAILOR
Observe article that makes you show anger	SEETHE
One moving into residence after aristocrat kept up great friendliness	BONHOMIE
Partiality shown by arts graduates around India	BIAS
Physicist initially well-informed about light particle	PHOTON
Rector's first boy brought in some bells for his own use?	PERSONAL
Saint occupying extremely religious office	VESTRY
Satisfied story is missing a show of courage	METTLE
Sensible to capture pencil marking on part of avian skeleton	WISHBONE
Sharp comment with indication about energy in cooking device	BARBECUE
Some optimism returns after reflecting for a period	TERM
Something to revolve around a half-dozen turns	AXIS
Square, popular in Tyneside area	NINE
Stringed instrument mostly good for Scottish sailor	GUITAR
Support backing people in fierce speech	DIATRIBE
Town near Oxford, note, toured by a major university figure	ABINGDON