The Times - Cryptic - February 22 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28220
Clues	Answers
A year after "essential," stale	MUSTY
Assistant forbidding bringing dog over for hair styling	POMPADOUR
Brisk run expands one's whole self-image?	ALLEGRO
Chatters away but sounds insecure	RATTLES
Declare liable for docking cat	PRONOUNCE
In this group of languages charge is incomplete	INDIC
Keeping calm if dragons run wild	SANGFROID
Lose it completely, chucking policeman in river	EXPLODE
Mistake to eat a cut of lamb that's salty	BRACKISH
Moving eyes, trademark completion of portrait: his?	REMBRANDT
Mythical vessel is back, crossing river	ARGO
Nightmare as revolutionary spirit rises	MURDER
Old friend is a gem	OPAL
One unable to fly into a passion turns to the bottle	remuage
Physical structure shortly to be seen moving west across northern state	MONTANA
Post Office insanely resited for remote islander	POLYNESIAN
Proposed law from long ago in force	old bill
Regularly ruin board game, introducing new complexity	RICHNESS
Run and hide in tell-tale city	CANTERBURY
Savage conserves energy to use as a weapon	WIELD
Sickness moving one indeed to eat right, being concerned with nutrition	ALIMENTARY
Some animals fancied each way at the start	a few
Spitting as article breaks piece of equipment	IMPALEMENT
Statue that is stuffed with paper item	IMAGE
Stone structure puzzling old people	DOLMEN
Temperature, along with skin blemish, remains	TRASH
Try and attend to nurse patient's last sign of life	HEARTBEAT
What's needed for job __ a steel tack	BASTE
When clear outside, start to lift one blind	OBLIVIOUS
Wretched dwelling, not large, in seaside resort	HOVE
Youngster in cot, perhaps with sharp edge	BLADED
Zero in maths worried Hardy, for one	THOMAS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2076
Clues	Answers
After prohibition, 500 bear cost of music platform	BANDSTAND
Are initially not entirely vocal over party fruit	AVOCADO
Back briefly with vehicle attending gambling game	BACCARAT
Brilliant stroke, working to get voucher	COUPON
Decline English books	EBB
Destroy shed __ limo wrecked	DEMOLISH
Detective quiet about the French unit losing heart	SLEUTH
Garden feature needed by kestrel, listen!	TRELLIS
Jack's part of church, by the sound of it	KNAVE
Long account by His Excellency	ACHE
Man's statement of money owed	BILL
Maybe slide into swimming pool in building protected by Church	CHUTE
Monitor before iron court	PREFECT
Mother is silent	MUM
National emblem featuring in disclosure, reportedly	LEEK
New walker, not half glum, lacking enthusiasm	LUKEWARM
One following Southern US soccer unusually	SUCCESSOR
One running second machine	SPRINTER
Part of artiste's theatre trial	TEST
Person of distinction with the Spanish prize-giver?	NOBEL
Printing system in liberal revamp	BRAILLE
Pub owner, he entertains a great number	HOST
Smart set resolved to get something for bed	MATTRESS
Starts to believe as King unites capital	BAKU
Two at fault regularly arriving at aggregate	TOTAL
Unlikely story about returning ill, not to be relied on	FALLIBLE