The Times - Cryptic - March 8 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28232
Clues	Answers
A fool for quietly producing fake news?	AGITPROP
A little fruit one’s taken into shower	RAISIN
After landslide perhaps rescue detective with problem afoot	dig out
Birds, egg-layers for reproduction, full of goodness	greylag geese
Broken toes, small but extremely thick	OBTUSEST
Chuck beer heartily over top bouncer	bungee-jumper
Follow after stolen food	hot dog
Fury: is it on reflection something many check regularly?	TISIPHONE
Horrified to have a good speed limited	AGHAST
I maintain champion has lost his head	UPHOLDER
In a hurry, Harry, not having arrived in front of George	HYING
In the last round, new government agency concerned with funding	FINANCIAL
Old medicine finally changed for modern therapy	PHYSIO
Ordinary language appeared elevated on page	PROSE
Player securing fine wicket __ a declaration may follow it	act of war
Quietly pass plaything that may be stuck in the hair	SLIDE
Reject Percy, not very fashionable name	SPURN
Sales pitch __ or brief example	PATTER
Self-indulgent type has done this wrong	HEDONIST
Sort of figure one must reform rough girl	HOURGLASS
Special set of linen said to be right, like that	TROUSSEAU
Standard apparently not observed?	anything goes
Stopping insatiable appetite, nothing beyond a kilo for classic beauty	greek god
Twelve, a large crowd for this celebration	midnight mass
Unauthorised passenger in Sierra: confiscate vehicle!	STOWAWAY
Was nervous about beginning to fidget with handles?	FEARED
Where book festival is anyhow being broadcast you can follow	hay-on-wye
Your move at first to join our side? You’ll get it in the neck!	THYMUS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2086
Clues	Answers
Accumulate a large amount	AMASS
Adult's complaint heard and raised	grown-up
Article upset stage show's backer	ANGEL
Being broadcast? Extract from Wagnerian opera coming up	on air
Choose not to participate in work with aggressive solicitor?	opt out
Cold fish? Hold on!	CLING
Crooked scheme rascal detailed	SCAM
Famous painting in oils a man vandalised	mona lisa
Former chief magistrate imprisoning duke for deception	DODGE
Former partner given sufficient warning	EXAMPLE
Fruit and nuts, mostly	BANANA
Golf club: Irish one, not English	IRON
How Monopoly starts, as it always has?	from the word go
Informed, foremost of teachers getting on in years	TOLD
Leader of Opposition helping to produce speech	ORATION
Miserable maids, mistreated, left	DISMAL
Old theologian followed by boy most likely to succeed	odds-on
Pick out deity if name initially bandied about	IDENTIFY
Pleasure-seeker's complaint involving a bad back	GADABOUT
Provider of beef under an age BSE affected	aberdeen angus
Represent chaps holding answer	MEAN
Rotten worker, curt	OFFHAND
Slow learner expected to take in new chapter	DUNCE
Some actors opening trunk	TORSO
Terrible just losing face	AWFUL
Unsophisticated fictional detective picked up play on words	HOMESPUN