The Times - Cryptic - April 5 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28256
Clues	Answers
Artless image on smart card contains file	SIMPLISTIC
Associates bully fat people heading off	co-workers
Carpenter's former increases announced	ADZE
Collar gunmen's oil supplier	COPRA
Dredge watering hole briefly __ deer returning	SPRINKLE
Female group by banks of Liffey showing craft	WILY
Fleet see Heath maybe coming on board, thinking shrewdly	quick-wittedness
Flyer opposing pedestrian facility	pelican crossing
Go round little lake circling hotel	WHEEL
Hair around mouth that could form a wet oscular mush	walrus moustache
It's about keeping right hole for illumination	strip light
Left at jail without old locker	LATCHKEY
Money lodged in bank not long ago	RECENTLY
Needle game's inconclusive	PIQUE
Part of flower, first planted in raised border	PISTIL
Perked up, seeing red cuckoo	ENERGISED
Police escorting the lady when drunk like some spirits	METHYLATED
Regularly recognise Times	EONS
Rider grasps this burden with Bob	saddlebow
Ruddy beetroot's top coming into view	BLOOMING
Seat on elephant who had hiccups	HOWDAH
Some calumnious old students	ALUMNI
Spot area knight has captured	DAUB
State emphatically split during a glut	ASSEVERATE
They're likely to be told to belt up?	back-seat drivers
Tool chap's placed in church with letter on plate?	CHISEL
Vigilant editor follows each elegy in translation	eagle-eyed
Watered and weeded around close to beds	HOSED
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2106
Clues	Answers
A short distance from Winchester	INCHES
Added text rarely shows	EXTRA
Bidding not working with European cartel	OFFERING
Cab's losing time as something running through wheel	AXIS
Constellation __ or moon of Jupiter given name?	ORION
Could this one have every individual in term losing marks?	TEACHER
Dog we left to run back for bird	CURLEW
Don't hit silly young girl	MISS
Football Association gets new supporter	FAN
Gathering of crops is most tough with little volume brought in for days	HARVEST
God being shown around the temple	PANTHEON
Half the alphabet? This was split some time ago	ATOM
Intrinsic quality of German city church	ESSENCE
Relative supporting estate, say, with billions for architectural eyesore	CARBUNCLE
Row when stopwatch loses minutes?	TIER
Second-hand American edition	USED
Show mercy to viper coiled in tree, heading off	REPRIEVE
Small component and mostly simple	SPARTAN
Smashing beginning to Cheltenham racing	CRUSHING
So cereals must be mixed in dish	CASSEROLE
Spot old feline is trapped by a big one	LOCATION
Swelling troubling your eyelid, primarily	STYE
Swimming pool disposing of old cover	LID
Trance from taking ecstasy in a shot of whisky?	DREAM
Warrant queen held in hand __ not the last	MERIT
Year's plan is clear and organised	CALENDAR