The Times - Cryptic - April 19 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28268
Clues	Answers
American tug	YANK
Be leader of school group, finding source of river	HEADSTREAM
Character on staff in bicycle factory	CLEF
Comparison made by petulant judge before new church	cross-reference
Complex woman's chosen academician	ELECTRA
Diabolically his vacillating stops amiable Republican leaving	FIENDISHLY
Eminent politician, say, cutting shrubs on island	elder statesman
Everyone turns up? Not at all __ that's plain	LLANO
Extremely savvy academic backing church council	SYNOD
Fixes high-backed benches	SETTLES
Free, but worried by old ruse, we hear	EXTRICATE
Host reading out a couple of letters	EMCEE
Little bird, one moving around Baltic capital	BUDGERIGAR
Main old container touring east	OCEAN
Musical interlude Verdi composed: it's transmitted around Maine	DIVERTISSEMENT
Officer surrounded by mounds of sand on southern headland	DUNGENESS
Physicist gets back, carrying article for monarch	henry the second
Play for cash, initially beside Welsh river	BUSK
Sadly pensive husband leaving game, for unhurried lunch, primarily	WISTFUL
Series of changes demanding energy on bike?	life cycle
Sluggishness of one on illegal drug in train, tripping	INERTIA
Solitary responsibility welcomed by Europeans	EREMITE
Specific time tiny fellow meets daughter	WEEKEND
Stage work the writer's penning finally about worker	OPERATIVE
Steering equipment made from hard wood	HELM
Unfeeling Cockney lacking skill, we hear?	ARTLESS
Unmanageable soldiers, spanner finally thrown in works	REFRACTORY
What we learn by securing established award	ROSETTE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2116
Clues	Answers
A point about Royal Navy chaps showing tattoo, perhaps	ADORNMENT
A small seabird at the back of the ship	ASTERN
At home, with friend round before start of early afternoon show	MATINEE
Burial place of old British missile	BARROW
Clubs travelling round line shown on map	CONTOUR
Cooking in a dream, one might put chicken in this	MARINADE
Cut short revolutionary phrase that's overused	CLICHE
Drive round Northern Ireland is fine, perhaps	PUNISH
Ends up in a narrow tongue of land	SPIT
Funniness about a delay	WAIT
Initially very ill, really unwell … suffering this?	VIRUS
It is associated with hotel buffet	HIT
Male at top of excellent club	MACE
Outline of second sailing boat	SKETCH
Pack of scoundrels surrounding king	CARDS
Part of another age or epoch	ERA
Rebels' aim in revolution is causing unhappiness	MISERABLE
Scientist's note found in box	CHEMIST
Snubs men developing a lack of feeling	NUMBNESS
Something implanted inside group	INSET
Supply English joke	EQUIP
Time to allay the fear of losing son and wealth	TREASURE
Traitor making arrangement to cede fort	DEFECTOR
Trouble about girl's high-flown writings?	AIRMAIL
Very last market	VEND
Very quick power nap, perhaps, then nothing	PRESTO