The Times - Cryptic - May 24 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28298
Clues	Answers
A few high on old tower	one or two
A tortuous clue somehow about the Spanish painter	toulouse-lautrec
Appeal of the Parisian father's embraced	PLEA
Bet meat and oil are processed as essential for life	metabolite
Bible books exist to be raised as a source of inspiration	ERATO
Circle pub argument __ something to be carried on outside?	WHEELBARROW
Conservative lot leading their opponents in desire for manufacturers?	cheap labour
Cut record company putting out books	MOWN
Drunken Arabs caught producing wine	BARSAC
Each year having a written test	PAPER
Equipment for tennis professional with suitable final income	net profit
Good painter works hard over place with famous address	GETTYSBURG
His rank is unusual for a deity	KRISHNA
Holiday island where I party after going back	BALI
Home gets consent to opening	INLET
I'm less than impressed with mammoth trade	big deal
Island place	ISLAY
Light pressure used with beer	PALE
Militaristic state's ability in spring	SPARTA
Mistake demolishing English house?	GAFF
Not happy in place surrounded by sick	DISPLEASED
Outfit without basis to work on a newspaper?	SUBEDIT
Personal qualities frequently destroy repeatedly on board?	soft skills
Present daily record outside parliament, ultimately like many peers	HEREDITARY
Support for prayer was intrusive and regularly mixed up	prie-dieu
Take a quick look at first of cases in hospital	SCAN
Train around area for annual race meeting	royal ascot
Weary time in plant garden with elders	ARBORETUM
What's hot sun cracking wet earth?	MUSTARD
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2141
Clues	Answers
Close __ initially not even remote? Not initially	NEAR
Concerns excluding first of electric vehicles	CARS
Fish pie and odd bits from chef __ something extra for the man?	CODPIECE
Haul part of hospital up	DRAW
In this state one won't have got ready	INSOLVENCY
Like a nuanced view? It's not evident in words on screen	SUBTLE
Money we kept back to get nut	CASHEW
Nag, distressed, in perturbed condition, to stop moving	STAGNATE
Observe daughter or other offspring	SEED
Partisan reviewed prospective member?	ASPIRANT
Radio's correct form of liturgy	RITE
Scoundrel to stop supply of tea	CADDIE
Sensible attitude excluding America?	NOUS
Something that's served up route taken at sea?	main course
Source of decoration using cigar in an unusual way	icing sugar
Starts to take hold after winter? This may	THAW
Stop offering no initial comfort	EASE
Sword? I'm the very thing involved in evidence of wound	SCIMITAR
Tolerate final treatment after head's cut	ENDURE
Total runs one piled up including nothing on a big scale	ENORMOUS
Try and try to produce supportive comment	hear hear
Unease I'd picked up: I should participate in new quest	DISQUIET
Welsh party MP daily excited about start of Cardiff rugby	plaid cymru
Where are the billboards? Zero adverts seen during journey	ROADSIDE