The Times - Cryptic - May 12 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28288
Clues	Answers
A story, nipper's prime requirement, had to be off-putting	ALIENATE
Act as vicar maybe, providing church with a set of holy books	CHANT
An item or two?	PAIR
Buggy feasible for bringing fruit	LEMON
Char and whisky, when time is right	SCORCH
Club hit __ accompaniment to fish just cooked?	chip shot
County and country inadequately supplied with money __ anger ensues	LANCASHIRE
Description of Winnie as a mammal?	honey bear
Dog left out in the open given drink at the pub	AIREDALE
Dress up and talk big	BRAG
Exceptional man with great hope campaigning very vigorously?	on the rampage
Formula for making little Sarah's shoe	SANDAL
Host's moderately tipsy __ we've heard that so many times before!	the same old story
International organisation to protect old city: way one can make people feel better?	NATUROPATH
Maybe one-to-one operation is somewhat lacking	RATIO
Miserable aim to get new leader	ABJECT
Most idiotic fools, right to the fore, in court	CRASSEST
No worry with energy at a minimum in early period	NONAGE
Notice lout is on the loose __ I will speak out in a clear manner	elocutionist
One ''spiky'' type to go off the deep end, rambling	ITINERANT
One's got on in an endeavour to go with the flow	BANDWAGON
Periodical served up piece as a good opener?	GAMBIT
Pieces of sculpture mostly standing on a pair of parallel lines	STATUARY
Scruffy children __ last thing academy needs	SEEDY
Soon despicable fellow gets a woman to have close relationship	INAMORATA
Trying hard, not having succeeded in the gym?	TRAINING
Upcoming fashion __ chain of shops to provide special footwear	wellington boots
Worker in study somewhere in Switzerland?	CANTON
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2133
Clues	Answers
A hybrid sort of clue	ACROSS
Again organise seaside town	RESORT
Alarm when the cut finger sprained	FRIGHTEN
Box fastener in wood	CHESTNUT
Box where sculpture perhaps hidden in deception	CARTON
Chap, if elderly, having various functions	MANIFOLD
Complete reinvention of triangle	INTEGRAL
Cricketer with beer to knock back	SLIP
Dope fixing a steed	SEDATE
European sensing English rather bitter, first of all	SERB
Fit girl running round bottom of garden, minor	TRIFLING
Mention a funny name	NOMINATE
Not any of it, sister said?	NONE
Notice spinners turning	SPOT
Nude is strangely finding knickers, say	UNDIES
Nuts eaten by buffalo, countless	LOCO
Parade trinkets also	TATTOO
Plane top in Germany, though many lost	GLIDER
Racket __ that has strings attached	FIDDLE
Shape on the page not entirely irregular	HEPTAGON
Something sent round	CIRCULAR
Song in concert, unexceptional	TUNE
Sunny city on the French Riviera	NICE
Uninteresting place to live	FLAT