The Times - Cryptic - April 29 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28277
Clues	Answers
A bargain in pink and blue	KNOCKDOWN
A cuff you weren't expecting?	turn-up
A party with sailors on deck	ADORN
Be able to broadcast under any conditions?	NOHOW
Better without clothing for race, one would agree?	STREAKER
Boast about French XI, first in Europe for a time	bronze age
Chinese city's restriction on books leading to offence	TIENTSIN
Engine's sound and very secure on ascent	VROOM
Few like such garments merely to be the first for wearing?	NONIRON
For auditors, generate an invoice in the form of a flyer	RAZORBILL
French day centre's abandoned by Order of the Republic?	JEDI
I get browned off, swamped by stories and dull speeches	LITANIES
Image from bible with A-rating	AVATAR
Jump in fare after auction ends early	SALCHOW
Match involving four old clubs is undecided	EQUIVOCAL
Need large one before retiring	ENTAIL
One coming before performances to record shows	ANCESTOR
One having turned up barman at first tolerated?	pub bore
One judge is up in arms	IRATE
Overused, of dubious merit now	TIMEWORN
Pour tea to start: I must have mine to drink!	tip it down
Replace spades, having finished with machinery	SUPPLANT
Seafood requisitions taking months, not days	ormers
Sequence to work out	TRAIN
Sharp right turns in front of entrance	TRENCHANT
Spirit primarily cordial in houses backing onto one another	HOOCH
They'd ruin sea trip?	PIRATES
Victor, struggling with pesky rent, being this?	poverty-stricken
What can appear long until just before November?	YEAR
Where St Vincent, seeing snake, protected people, keeping lives secure	windward islands
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2124
Clues	Answers
A second group offering something worth having	ASSET
Accepted things from dealer and was sacked	got ones cards
After short break, pressing to be on the up again	RESURGENT
Artist shows bird crossing river	COROT
Bill with long hair is a performer	ACTRESS
Country knocked back in great lamentations	MALTA
Criticise one Conservative leader acting out of fear?	PANICKING
Female lacking in passion and anger	IRE
Fit for the match	MARRIAGEABLE
Football player, male with little energy and out of view	BACKSTAGE
Former abstainer, party-goer at heart who is outward-looking?	EXTRAVERT
In charge of you and me. editor may be worn out	OVERUSED
Jumps around plants	CAPERS
Member joining top celebrities: one sticking to the law	LEGALIST
Model soldier beginning to get on	PARAGON
More than one African agent I spy being ''shifty''	EGYPTIANS
Northbound David in an American state	NEVADA
Odd characters in Corby yell	CRY
One getting up only a bit of the stairs	RISER
Spirited community?	ghost town
Strangers in a story by Poles	ALIENS
Teams start to struggle before day in Rome	SIDES
Type of music when Georgia goes to student event?	RAGGA
Wise man in comfy position getting nothing right	NESTOR