The Times - Cryptic - May 9 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28285
Clues	Answers
Ashes of the French saint	DUST
Brown’s old joke	CHESTNUT
Camp clearing	SETTLEMENT
Car attendant	ESCORT
Course records gaining award	EPSOM
Extremely short, angular celebrity	STAR
Few sense concern about press meetings	news conferences
He lays slates, 50 in a row	TILER
Herb associated with Don in Essex town	BASIL
High liver from Central Tibet? Wrong	IBEX
Hoover, say, setting me back about £25	EPONYM
King and knight in order losing heads for model	EXEMPLAR
Most of Rheingold arranged with new, alternative opera name	LOHENGRIN
Papal letters bishop cut up	BREVES
Plant one of many used in café	french bean
Potential difficulties from Moscow and far north somehow	can of worms
Ram, potentially, indicator of 50s Ford car	sign of the zodiac
Ready to work briefly at one time with everyone	On Call
Reliable fellow's powerful tugboat?	tower of strength
Reportedly cold, long for one to supply wood	chile pine
Reporting from 2 maybe sinking beers during short trip	JOURNALESE
Rodgers and Hart song: low, low number	blue moon
Station wagon, say, in race, overturned	estate car
Surpass alfresco party	OUTDO
Transport lots of collected works	OMNIBUSES
Trivial insolence; quaint variety	INCONSEQUENTIAL
Two sentences for the avian community	birdlife
Very loud, but ultimately quiet	SOFT
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2130
Clues	Answers
A crime to send back racehorse	MURDER
Aristocrat from this country cutting half of debt	DUKE
Award __ ridicule also	RIBAND
Conservative yarn, not the first	TORY
Craven cold war moves by Yankee	COWARDLY
Eccentric person, one bearing greetings?	CARD
Faithful servant’s last regret	TRUE
Flaps from article appearing in illustrations	PANICS
Generous family with daughter	KIND
Herb, in charge of a building in Rome	BASILICA
Instrument for blokes, oddly unused	OBOE
Jersey, possibly, with large hood	COWL
Jewel I perhaps must change	SAPPHIRE
Longed, desperately, to be prosperous	GOLDEN
Look hard for missing English celebrity	STAR
Part of egg may go all black, finally	YOLK
Preserve a track for singer in cage?	CANARY
Public officials love getting into awkward situations	CORONERS
Rubs lady in need of massage, ridiculously	ABSURDLY
Some fancy a new colour	CYAN
Spy almost fell from the sky, getting injured	SPRAINED
That woman turned up in picture house	HER
Tolerate hairstyle __ one time!	PERMIT
Twelve? I had nine initially in force	MIDNIGHT
Unpoetic stuff about border plant	PRIMROSE