The Times - Cryptic - May 20 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28295
Clues	Answers
About to dive into water? Hold it!	BREATH
American players __ see them briefly in undergarments?	LINEMEN
Bird, one sadly missing out __ it can't fly!	PIG
Bishop has deficiency, predicament from which there’s no getting away	black hole
Bit of food? Child eats seconds with a mother going short	TOSTADA
Bit of wood left at back of farm in risky operation	BRANCHLET
Brats go up to vandalise superior hostelry	GASTROPUB
Bright light upsets these Greek characters	NUS
Characters that could be hard up in social isolation	PURDAH
Chief has drink with engineers	SUPREME
City circles infiltrated by the Left	OPORTO
Crazy girl I dumped	MAD
Gentleman sent back fish dish (it's ''crumby'')	RISSOLE
Giant oil spills making a sort of design	INTAGLIO
Important person with a billion banked?	NABOB
In part of East End that's housing for the toffs?	POPULAR
In quarrel notice piercing tool	BRADAWL
Like message passed on to be perused, having got tidied up?	Readdressed
Mollusc that has one looking amazed?	GAPER
Moves made by members of the family holding firm after upset	RELOCATIONS
One grand splashed out for something to make man a man?	ANDROGEN
One takes the biscuit, as against a donkey?	CRACKERJACK
Quiet and strange __ that is street most badly built?	SHODDIEST
Relaxation of French taking wine with English	DETENTE
Religious proviso one gets in a church offering words of wisdom?	ADVICE
River for you to sit beside somewhere in Sussex	RYE
Second-rate monarch is moving	betaking
Small balls in position one doesn't want to lose	BEARINGS
This writer's needing to demonstrate progress	IMPROVE
Tom maybe has a fit of temper __ explosive meltdown?	CATASTROPHE
Ultimately that unwanted plant is a border flower	TWEED
Visitor with touch of embarrassment breaking wind	GUEST
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2139
Clues	Answers
A long time later, when we’re closed?	after hours
A measure of force to implant monitor in rodent	VOLTAGE
As hooter is heard, votes against	NOES
At centre of village, social event for politicians	green party
Aunt cooked fish	TUNA
Daughter, robust but stupefied	DRUGGED
Doctor is required in harmful weather	DROUGHT
Dreadful fare cooked, not all	FEARSOME
Enduring holding vote outside	EXTERNAL
European married in Kent?	SWEDE
Feeble golf becomes an obsession	THING
Instrument that puts that woman on the spot	ZITHER
Keep thinking of Paddington?	bear in mind
One asserting he will play the dummy	DECLARER
One begged for a repeat	PARDON
One marsh turning into desert	GOBI
Opposed directly, one had adapted	head-on
Poirot’s cases were never so like a baffling crossword?	UNSOLVED
Shepherd’s first try to remove a fleece	SHEAR
Spirit a little melancholy	ELAN
Sullivan’s partner given a new start, the nut	FILBERT
Take notice? I’d say that man did	HEEDED
Uneven zeal’s undone South American	VENEZUELAN
US soldier back visiting a second friend from abroad	AMIGO