The Times - Cryptic - May 3 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2126
Clues	Answers
A bad-tempered over	ACROSS
A pleasantly appealing French accent	ACUTE
Architectural drawing of factory, incomplete	PLAN
Cake consumed in Gaul, no end	GATEAU
Conventional flag	STANDARD
Discipline press covering Northern Ireland	PUNISH
Downcast, departed drinking brandy, perhaps	DISPIRITED
Fish aunt cooked	TUNA
Gather a crowd	AMASS
Get through? I don't know	PASS
Group of team members quarrel, losing heads in courtyard	QUADRANGLE
He's bitter about a duke giving one an advantage	Head Start
Interesting story from one cadet at sea	ANECDOTE
Live on TV channel	RESIDE
Motel wrong about right wine	MERLOT
Passenger, bank worker, embracing most of party	TRAVELLER
Radically new vat, a danger if misused	avant-garde
Said of country life all but past	ORAL
Short promotional piece gives confused impression	BLUR
Show the way in battle — advance	LEAD
Simple English, say, broadcast	EASY
Skin condition irritates husband entertaining artist	nettle rash
Some in opposition, unlike sister	NUN
Tea tree initially causes talk	CHAT
Worker in branch to the north frequently repeated phrase	MANTRA
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28280
Clues	Answers
A Republican ready with large cold port	ARCHANGEL
After overture to opera I put in part for songster	ORIOLE
Agrees enough’s converted into methane maybe	greenhouse gas
Bess's mate quietly quits unbridled love-in	ORGY
Cheap product that reflects one snug home in river	RHINESTONE
Concerned with tense series of courses	REPAST
Cross with one representative of this cricket side	ELEVEN
Current game finishes early	DRAUGHT
Doctor abandons fight with current mammal	COATI
Draw a time-consuming flyer	ATTRACT
Evergreen tree somehow hides each stage performer	fire-eater
Flimsy paper kept in folder	FRAGILE
Former slave the Spanish must have smuggled outside	HELOT
Gospel turns on church body	EVANGEL
Indicate area circled by hands	MEAN
It helps Browning saluting on behalf of king	toasting fork
Jokes about juvenile Romeo's Sunday best	glad rags
Mock group running football at city university	FALSE
Motor club's loco controller	engine driver
Old queen's English hat mounted in part of UK	NEFERTITI
Outline Klee's absurdly fashionable style	SKELETON
Pole, Frenchman, colonist and soldier	staff sergeant
Second mole eating daughter's creepy-crawly	SPIDER
Strip down poor piece finally about conservationists	DISMANTLE
Stuff concerning payment given to duke	OVERFEED
Surfers enjoy this band	long wave
Trio's playing beside small lake that has a spit	ROTISSERIE
Urge lady of the house to scrap first two tablets	PRESS