The Times - Cryptic - June 2 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2148
Clues	Answers
Beaming artist departs with Tina excitedly	RADIANT
British reptile heard weather feature	BLIZZARD
Dog's den free __ a stroke of good luck	GODSEND
Drug dealer quietly meets doorkeeper	PUSHER
Fanatical detective to stop revolutionary	RABID
Fat, heartless Scottish landowner	LARD
Finally devour two chocolate eggs	ROE
Flatter dairy product promoted	butter up
Fraudster once, losing last of medals, ruined cycling event	tour de france
Grill family's large vegetable	PUMPKIN
Hairless labrador knocked over daughter	BALD
Keep receiving new adverts for protective legwear	knee-pads
Love European river	NILE
Male deer in mist again	STAG
Maybe part of Sunday's dinner dance	mashed potato
Pairs in middle of slow lane advance	LOAN
School's shooting film in the 1990s	TRAINSPOTTING
See double parking? Edward's cut off	LOPPED
Slow-moving creatures torment mottled cat	TORTOISESHELL
Sort of pastry half filled with duck	FILO
Start carving stone	ONSET
Tender Christian missionary recruiting in force	PAINFUL
Theft occasionally leading to scrap on square perhaps	TETRAGON
Youth without boundaries unacceptable	OUT
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28306
Clues	Answers
Above river, study game	CONTEST
Bore is miserable male being shunned	EAGRE
Distribute everything __ nothing left at the end	ALLOT
During prayer this person's to make a face	GRIMACE
Effort of female put down	FEAT
Escape a tricky situation? You get illumination from above	LAMPLIGHT
Fine vase __ it has flower, something to embellish a room?	FURNITURE
Frame given position in bottom of the box	ESPALIER
French city spoils Parisian female, one trapped	MARSEILLE
Herb adding price to alcoholic drink	ALECOST
Heroes sit around making conjectures	THEORISES
Hesitation about eating one egg or several of them?	ROE
Inclined in education to ignore one of the three essential elements?	LEANING
Keep mum involved in home decorating? Charming!	DISHY
Killer of hunted animal guarding southern city once	DESTROYER
Lightheartedness is the thing sought in duty	LEVITY
Made to keep one listening and prepared for battle?	FOREARMED
Month in which a fast woman tempted to enter races	TEVET
Mortified drone showed sign of injury	HUMBLED
One disloyal in a job, source of trouble	APOSTATE
Pal I recruit to arrange something on a wall	picture rail
Plant needing a support, post to keep it in place	mares-tail
Positioned like a king in charge of subject	TOPIC
Routine held up: nail the robber responsible for it?	TURPIN
Sailor's muscles	ABS
Suitable honour for rising figure	MOTIF
Tea and vinegar's out for us: also meat	VEGETARIANS
Tenants may have to deal with such correspondence	LETTERS
Using fingers, mine, I count	DIGITALLY
Warrior in hospital receiving special care	SARACEN
Went hungry? Needing inner energy, did the opposite	FEASTED
What's explosive about sex appeal? She once told us!	HITE