The Times - Cryptic - February 25 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28223
Clues	Answers
Bear to the left, reaching city's stall at fair	HOOPLA
Beaten cricket coach ultimately cheated	THROBBED
Big Eddy's circumspect bids scuppered	CHARYBDIS
Changed side for Lord's is fully updated	switched on
Child follows retreating gunners, firing irregularly	ARSON
Conclude activity on field to lure foxes	draw stumps
Court order restricting American patronage	CUSTOM
Cried like a corvid deprived of heart, so we hear	CAWED
Defective weight or, conversely, any number of grams	WRONG
Diligent help almost keeping couple united	ASSIDUOUS
Dispatch book left behind by somebody	CELERITY
Enriched fruit drink, sophisticated sort	SMOOTHIE
Frantic partners put on odd bits of dress	DESPAIRING
Freshly brewed tea missed cup	DEMITASSE
Gothic gong I've improperly seized	MEDIEVAL
Increase in price for walking tour	HIKE
Large pantry not yet full?	STILLROOM
Marketeer's minimal stock purchased in Vienna	SPIV
Material lodged underneath piano	PLAID
Mum forming part of twosome getting spliced at sea?	main brace
No Yankee reactionary has Socialist backing over there	YONDER
One on flight to watch carefully, we're told	STAIR
Piece of music has magnificent opening	CHASM
Promising biographer's first title	BRIGHT
Retro science facility, source of medicinal lotion	BALM
Runs into region where there's money maybe for pancake?	crash-land
Small section of verse also fine on reflection	FOOT
Take time to record final?	last-minute
Theologist invested in home improvements very little	DIDDY
Unnamed lady cleared out ground in routine manner	mundanely
Vitamin primarily alleviating discomfort if colic's bad	folic acid
Woeful setting for grand part of requiem	DIRGE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2079
Clues	Answers
A Liberal idea, incomplete, however	ALTHOUGH
Aptly, Evan withholds the odd request	PLEA
As expected, currently drone is flying	no wonder
Crook messed with ABM in secret planning location?	back room
Driver perhaps, to proceed left, following one in black suit	golf club
East London college as an alternative	ELSE
English firm concerned with the environment	ECO
Father locks up a social outcast	PARIAH
Flower close to garden behind	ASTERN
Go off with a schedule	ROTA
Help a son that's lost outside US city	El Paso
Info that is fabulous thing to get from bottle!	GENIE
Lens we're adapting for one once seen in cinemas	NEWSREEL
Likelihood of fatal dose being taken by detective?	ODDS
Partially complete document initially coming in ninety minutes after noon?	half-done
Places for badges, round, almost 10	LAPELS
RU sorted out with flea for this?	EARFUL
Self-centred person, for example, first is after love	EGOIST
Sheep and goose heard in African country	UGANDA
Something on a plate: it reflects to show wild animal	TIGER
Taking a chance, opens new clubs	on spec
Test version is live: much obliged!	BETA
US soldiers crossing desert, free	GRATIS
Volunteer troops one commanded followed	TAILED
Zulu I found in this region	ZONE