The Times - Cryptic - April 15 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28265
Clues	Answers
A comedian performs in Balkan region	MACEDONIA
Across river, a sort of bridge not available quickly	PRONTO
Ban on snooker player in dormitory town?	potters bar
Be dynamite, writhing between the sheets here?	amenity bed
Bring up behind tower	REAR
Broadcasts not the first but the last word	ADIOS
Charge for cosmetic surgery maybe that star turns up for?	appearance money
Crew put rings etc on maybe?	deck hands
Extremely dark at first, gas light turned up	no end
For example, cat catching small rat?	PEST
For example, Tolkien enthusiast is overwhelmed by endless choice	FANTASIST
Frank and Jack, heading off around one	NAIVE
Gather it’s prayer time	PLEAT
Given funds, so finish in credit	ENDOWED
Hand over money as TV dinner ad led to splurge	stand and deliver
I press on with a false or slanderous allegation	ASPERSION
Iceberg is a little lower	CALF
Intelligence is a boring topic	grey matter
Lose bet, after card is turned over	MISLAY
Over an hour spot does, very old	DOTH
Pardon a brother that accepts shelter	AMNESTY
Pine touched by part of saw: it may need drilling	TOOTHACHE
Praise to God from prophet, including a couple of notes for the English	HOSANNA
Present chest, topless	OFFER
Rate son lacking in emotion	SCOLD
Remove impurities from cloak, regularly dipped in river	DECOKE
Smash almost all the competition? Just avoid losing	break even
Sun hat, large, keeping more or less for now	TOPICAL
Tend to like such a formal shirt perhaps as party wear?	fancy dress
Worried chapter must get cut	CHEWED
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2114
Clues	Answers
Around one hour after midnight, put off Circle Line	DIAMETER
Backup plan if a flea’s flying around	fail-safe
Book coming out?	EXODUS
British newspaper to make self-aggrandising claims	BRAG
Conceal land between hills in poetry read aloud	VEIL
Confuse double folio in bundle	BAFFLE
Dessert heads for diner least expecting pool of liquid	PUDDLE
Dose doing away with outsize lady, unexpectedly fatal	DEADLY
Enlargement of fashionable pleat?	INCREASE
Enough for bridge? More of us playing	FOURSOME
Fake news’s ending poor actor	SHAM
Five cheer in Mexico for little rodent	VOLE
Fleshy part of judge, one said to be wise	JOWL
Having no answer, somehow shell peas unaided	HELPLESS
Lurching gets centre-half sent off for a breather	LUNG
Males in a club that’s seedy and sticky	ADHESIVE
Old vote supporting daughter’s university place	OXFORD
Part of focus to merchant?	CUSTOMER
Promenade area not safer after redevelopment	SEAFRONT
Restraining headgear left in grip of new wife	BRIDLE
Small racing toboggan stopped by drift’s first soft snow	SLUDGE
Ten months since present time	XMAS
Waste of time following stitch	SEWAGE
Wife along with powerful Rod?	WAND