The Times - Cryptic - March 24 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28246
Clues	Answers
A single voracious fish announced, one demanding huge interest?	loan shark
African winger to go round, arrowing crosses over: just headers	TOURACO
Arab is soon to return	OMANI
Contrived paintings, one functionary’s short of	ARTIFICIAL
Counters a disease vector, cutting off half	ABACI
Created book without introduction; one may learn by this	ROTE
Danish unit translated into another tongue	HINDUSTANI
Deft, I drew out tangle	drift-weed
Demanding some coffee	INSTANT
Disaster as teacher turns up with lace undone	DEBACLE
Duck a risk here: fish unlikely to stay frozen long?	skate on thin ice
Evasively holding up entry permit	VISA
Excellent man on island holiday	good friday
For carnivore, flesh: let me see a kilo being eaten	MEERKAT
Had incentive to rework English opera	death in venice
Happens not to be the thing tinned? The opposite	ISNT
Hard with journalist on coach to clear a way through the woods	BUSHWHACK
It can produce regenerated tail, no trouble	NEWT
Men on the moon were fine once, a member of staff’s gathering	AMERICANS
Missing centrepiece of meals, hurried for a big shop	SUPERSTORE
Move on beat __ to this?	TANGO
Nocturnal creature, European, eaten by man	GENET
Potty is available for president	MADISON
Shot leaving car at home here?	on drive
Significance of ring, perhaps, and why it isn’t answered	engaged signal
Soldier not belonging to the state	PRIVATE
Spare place finally accepted by officer not attached to body	EXTRACORPOREAL
What may cover grave at heart of chapel?	EPITAPH
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2098
Clues	Answers
Backchat? It’s marginal	LIP
Bird fan with tatty “I” logo on T-shirt	ORNITHOLOGIST
Colossal, as is star’s study?	ASTRONOMICAL
Colour of a courtyard, mainly	AQUA
Condition of rugby forward attracting gossip	LOCKJAW
Confound nightclub with start of manic attack	DISCOMFIT
Diarmuid, Irishman holding back what’s in platinum alloy?	IRIDIUM
Doting fan has circuit to follow	LAPDOG
Gorky’s words of wisdom?	MAXIM
I’m with sympathy taking in boy’s corruption	improbity
Lampoons SNP logo: a fish, oddly	SPOOFS
Lift raincoat to find part of shaft	CAM
Miss is fanatical, grabbing ring	AVOID
Pal mob’s jostling showing sangfroid	APLOMB
PM’s corrupt payouts	AUTOPSY
Russian conductor of choir provost put right	ROSTROPOVICH
Sluggishly, and awfully idly, going round Australia	DOZILY
Taxis to join up, moving about in proximity	JUXTAPOSITION
Tug, small, for US nationals	YANKS
US dustbins found in carwash can stink!	ASHCANS
What was for writing in quiz, mostly fifty-fifty	QUILL
What’s vital for childbirth without doctor	WOMB
Who in class knows what’s said by gunman?	hands up
WI location: BA has to carry mum	BAHAMAS