The Times - Cryptic - May 5 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28282
Clues	Answers
Amateur player from incredibly rich nation	CORINTHIAN
Behold very large European general	LOOSE
Bounds of empire shifting over time? I’m not sure	PERIMETER
Case of criminal instructor having run off	CONTAINER
Censor right-wing writer	blue-pencil
City hotel, an old one	HANOI
Cockney put on payroll, creating resentment	IRE
Colonel losing millions: not what one expected?	BLIP
Doctor adored Liberal woman past her prime?	old dear
Egg-laying creature quietly burrowing into ground	TERRAPIN
English teacher suspicious in absence of head’s representative	EMISSARY
Found among sarcophagi on ancient island	IONA
Gamble when duke retreats, eliminated	ICED
Get rid of Republican, keeping quiet about it	ERASE
Harry succeeded in safe surroundings	PESTER
Hurried back with judge for recount	NARRATE
Insult female cashier	DISMISS
Might I have a word with cardinal in the morning?	AHEM
Mischievously stole time, finding excuse for a kiss?	MISTLETOE
Nothing odd in Kennedy’s demise	END
Plenty of beer drunk by backbencher? On the contrary	AMPLE
Profile of Tory leading expedition	CONTOUR
Reason things go wrong with potato salad?	murphys law
Recommend a chap to Sue?	ADVOCATE
Remove arresting officer? That’s quite revealing	DECOLLETE
Rogue president entertaining a streetwalker?	PEDESTRIAN
Sauce that’s very nice indeed	TOPPING
Solicitor having bite to eat in pub	BEGGAR
Sum of £1000 in cash	MONKEY
Thus female must enter church on time	THENCE
Twice finished burnt?	OVERDONE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2128
Clues	Answers
After month, reserve computer accessories	DIVE
Avoiding contact when old spies call, finally	ASOCIAL
Bad-tempered friend of Mole	RATTY
Base, initially perhaps long, is not that heavy	PLINTH
Bishop, one supporting boxer’s defence	ALIBI
Check on one foreign character	CHI
Choose gal misbehaving, old enough to be taught a lesson?	school-age
Corpses rotten fellow declares	CADAVERS
Fancy Italian offloading a drug	DIGITALIN
Fascinated by Badminton shows	INTO
Gamble: cut it fine?	DICE
Girl training in gym originally getting fit	ADAPTING
Go down the pub, perhaps __ not a nice one?	MICE
I’m returning cake, evenly cut, for boy	MICK
Joint I hesitate to say in street’s for trendies	HIPSTERS
May want nothing, HRH, surprisingly	HAWTHORN
Mother with trade union in fact	DATUM
Not much left in rubbish mostly	LITTLE
Note article by small auction house	SOTHEBYS
Restless natives, most proud!	VAINEST
Short coil can, when twisted	LACONIC
Speaks idly of Nato, terse, never coming to a conclusion	NATTERS
Transforming hospital, minor GP reforms	MORPHING
Unhappy to have head dropping commercials	ADS
Very quietly tucking into beer and fruit	APPLE
Word of gratitude repeated for so long	ta-ta