The Times - Cryptic - February 18 2022 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28217
Clues	Answers
Approve boomerangs as prepared by native Australian	KOALA
Beam to cut from Lebanese cedar regularly	LASER
Beastly healer having zero power to stop	VETO
Despair's ending __ two biblical characters help	RELIEVE
Do nothing when grub on the rise devours insect	STAGNATE
Ecstasy in club for pound	BEAT
French article put forward case: right to leave union	LEAGUE
Good fortune's met with old college linguist	POLYGLOT
Guerrillas in Nicaragua beginning to tell the difference	CONTRAST
Hasten current quietly flowing back through river	EXPEDITE
Learner opening iron box finds mineral	FELSPAR
Legally land aquatic reptile, leaving trap	TERRA
Loves details moved around with creative accounting?	old wives tales
Moving supply, hence parts miles off	LISSOME
Order placed in shop to send out hot shellfish	SCALLOP
Others getting beer in consumed spread	Real estate
Perhaps deeply embedded, needing a meal	FARINA
Picking up speed, run in at an angle before camber	learning curve
Plain in Peru occasionally windy as reported	PRAIRIE
Police almost there to crash in hovercraft?	HELICOPTER
Rotten manoeuvres to keep millions in pain	TORMENT
Russian female revolutionary in American election	ELENA
Service for which you may pick up scooters?	VESPERS
Soak occupied drinking Freixenet at first	INFUSE
Something awful is compared with madness	like crazy
Statesman's boys in grand school taking English last	GLADSTONE
Supporting union, not broken, involving sides in dispute	FEDERAL
Traffic just arriving at mercantile event	trade fair
Warning at Caped Crusader's residence earlier	CAVEAT
Waste one's drink __ have to see about that	DISSIPATE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2074
Clues	Answers
Ambassador and a university lecturer face to face	head-on
Bill as user of letterbox?	POSTER
Busy type coming to river for drink	BEER
Created about awful rain __ it's wet in the kitchen!	MARINADE
Doughty-sounding old Labour leader	HARDIE
Enchantment for a period of time?	SPELL
Endless anger in cheap newspaper	RAG
Energetic, like a team with ten players dismissed?	all-out
Excellent facility for bride-to-be's stuff? No!	top-drawer
German city reds getting excited in small room?	DRESDEN
Got off school in exploit	detrained
Green leader beginning to make waves	EMERALD
Information being published concerning property contract	RELEASE
Male bird wrecking garden	GANDER
Muddle in dining-room	MESS
Mum rants terribly, producing oft-repeated phrases	MANTRAS
Place in Germany __ you and I arrive on St David's Day	WEIMAR
Pursuing every possibility, despite expectations	after all
Sailor is a knave	JACK
Salvation Army taken in by more rough-and-ready evangelist?	CRUSADER
Saw notice ahead of time	ADAGE
Some feel magic in this wood	ELM
Start to sample white wine in jar	SHOCK
Thin film director	LEAN
Times collection for a whole year?	CALENDAR
Wee child, one locked in big building	BAIRN