The Times - Cryptic - May 19 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28294
Clues	Answers
A growth promoter for a heavenly body	ASTEROID
Bark that surprises me on what sounds like a major branch	bow-wow
Book time to carve Arab nation’s leader, a little European	the woman in white
Butterfly perched by westbound railway	SATYR
Damage part of wheel caught in catch	DETRIMENT
Damage seen outside empty low-rise in NY district	HARLEM
Drill jade	BORE
Fancy case City men carried?	DECORATIVE
Finally fined a corporation, in fact	DATUM
Fruit initially puréed with some corn	PEAR
Harmful insect we eradicated	EVIL
How Gladys makes good second film	the lady vanishes
Improper duo I censor with rewriting	INDECOROUS
India participating in joint exercise	WIELD
Left a bee with our queen and worker	LABOURER
No way back when oxygen fails? What a bore	YAWN
Oratorio is ruined if choir modulate	a child of our time
Petty individual that is on express	MEANIE
Record detailed a certain racecourse	EPSOM
She perhaps goes after article in film	the african queen
Small answer elsewhere needs brains to come first?	SPEARHEAD
Some retiring parrot, a timid mimic	IMITATOR
Upshot of a lot of silence after short set	SEQUEL
Use charm to engage captain that is needed around vessel	CAPTIVATE
What has one spinning round ending with car crashing	ring dance
What some do with onion and melon ices, removing energy for super-chilling?	CRYOGENICS
What you need shortly is held by farm vehicle dealer	transactor
Where one might appear at Edinburgh, getting break	INFRINGE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2138
Clues	Answers
Admired player one in Dickensian musical	OLIVIER
Arrival at river: a few taking risks	ADVENTURESOME
Authority initially over soldier	COMMANDO
Buried? End badly in ancient city	UNDER
Cat turned up with old woman	PUMA
Cowboy to resist an Aussie bounder?	BUCKAROO
Dish of stew or stick with black olive starter?	GUMBO
Disreputable bunch regularly goes bananas	rogues gallery
Drop round for starchy cereal	SAGO
Explosive alert in court battle	WATERLOO
Girl of the Emerald Isle leaving hospital	IRIS
Given illumination by our setter?	SUNLIT
Indian jumbo perhaps a plane in haste diverted?	asian elephant
Island all right in a way when Yankee departs	OKINAWA
It once involved two banks in a row!	BIREME
Mineral doctor holding variable amount	GYPSUM
More tea houses where Kings Road is located	CHELSEA
One's elevated by king — knight's title?	SIR
Part inside reactor now ruptured	TORN
Root vegetable needs month to come up	YAM
Satisfy need at first in Tory depravity	CONVINCE
Seat in church at foot of Scottish mountain	BENCH
Strong odour alerts ten charge nurses	STENCH
Template for drawing clients amended	STENCIL
Underwater menace swimming about	U-boat