The Times - Cryptic - March 9 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28233
Clues	Answers
Accountant turned up little cash __ this may be grave	ACCENT
Burned books	LIT
Concerned with one sensory organ stealing power of another	OPTIC
Control old car seized by gangster	DOMINION
Created hot pants in gold colour	AUTHORED
Drunk on pungent gin stirred at the top	high-ranking
Edith Piaf's way to experience regret	RUE
Elected communist, one with controversial ideas	INFIDEL
Excited gambler may have this	AFLUTTER
Hardy character crossing river, swimmer with no trunks?	TREELESS
I'm leaving __ then I'm back for Asian furnishing	TATAMI
It excites pique, keeping tots in a rage	hot stuff
Knock down hotel along with manual worker	DECKHAND
Originator of complex work cut by journalist on paper	OEDIPUS
Pick out suit with shindig having been arranged	DISTINGUISH
Pope concealing weapon smoothly	LEGATO
President, say, no longer chilled: hard and less fresh	office-holder
Quite loud at the end of family party	kind of
Recital of Frost's poetry	RHYME
Ruse by Liberal Party that's raised game	DODGEBALL
Sign of pressure thus internalised by current staff	ISOBAR
So perhaps Brexit nasty for this woman?	EUNICE
Some in triumph arise excitedly for old sectarian	PHARISEE
Story about alcoholic perhaps going down the toilet	flushable
Thick bagel given to a school member	OAFISH
Tough leader's sarcasm about left wingers in Auckland	iron lady
Tripe's eaten, and sticky stuff in coating of yolk	GOBBLEDYGOOK
Twenty-four hours without any answers for firm	STURDY
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2087
Clues	Answers
A month's broadcasts are astounding!	AMAZE
Awful sights I witnessed, reportedly with son	EYESORES
Chance to abandon golf for a leisurely walk	AMBLE
Chemistry equipment cook ruining cakes has sent briefly in	bunsen burner
Cloaked in scarlet, one's king is imperilled	RISKED
Delegate's outside to help providing warrant	DESERVE
Desert's peaks, bizarrely, for winter sportspeople	speed skaters
Fair request for assistance leads to nothing	so-so
Five go astray, cutting round a French swamp	OVERRUN
For example, hurling up some limestone, magma, etc	team game
Great friendliness of bishop on one being invited into dwelling	BONHOMIE
In kitchen, no blender to raise	ENNOBLE
Leaves office, concerned with omens?	RESIGNS
Left out of greeting that goes over saint's head?	HALO
Meekly assures wretched refugees	asylum seekers
Old chairman has year in Irish county	MAYO
One finishes sentence? Party time!	DOT
Possible German teetotaller getting in a couple of rounds	OTTO
Ray eager to straighten out something ill-defined	grey area
Sleep is something easy to do!	DOSS
Spell “issue” in reverse	TIME
Terrible Tim trains road runner	ADMINISTRATOR
Understand bishop's responsibility	SEE
US inventor has no side, on reflection	EDISON