The Times - Cryptic - July 12 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28340
Clues	Answers
A University teacher sacking University forecaster	AUGUR
An opening for me to secure theatre award? It’s just the opposite	ANTONYM
Article about place recalled antelope	NYALA
Assumed name accordingly what Parisian adopted by British provides	SOBRIQUET
Be inclined to charge inappropriately?	tilt at windmills
Bird not previously observed to soar round river	WREN
Consequence of over-indulgence that could appear in threatening form	the morning after
Decline to come round to arrest impersonator?	WANNABE
Determination to secure small delivery to mill?	GRIST
Element of basic education delivered in spare study	LEARN
England without leader? Fear losing leader in the distance	light-year
Force ne’er-do-well to miss second season in America	WATERFALL
Go into heart of America, spending cents	ENTER
Happens to apply for release	ISSUE
I had one of the ears of a donkey?	IDIOTIC
Inclined to keep mostly dry in short	ABRUPT
Murderer concealing source of red stones	CAIRN
New and revised interpretation of routine output from cyclotron?	NEUTRINO
Possibly dubious bachelor request left in bottom of file	BORDERLINE
Put an end to good deal	SLEW
Rash man’s stolen stimulant	HOTSPUR
School meals leading to transport cost?	train fare
Serious French article’s circulating, though one line’s missing	unsmiling
Skit’s ending with harebrained nonsense	TRASH
Stop fellow about to shake crowded vehicle?	BANDWAGON
The writer’s taken aback about good article providing puzzlement	ENIGMA
Threatening much initially in a Test, but bagging duck	MINATORY
Try to read very good writer about football players?	steam open
What quartet may do: pub-crawl, imbibing ales, expending energy	barber-shop
Woman’s book followed by celebrity alternative practitioner	HERBALIST
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2176
Clues	Answers
A function originally held in church eating-place	CAFE
A great ape caught him up at last	CHIMP
Abandoned infant worrying don in gulf	FOUNDLING
Cover over, at first, open-air swimming pool	LIDO
Customer’s legal right protected by court	CLIENT
Cut off brewer’s cart reversing in naval establishment	DOCKYARD
Doctor with a degree in theatre studies	DRAMA
Drink brought up for friend	PAL
Fellow clan member finally seen in mask, surprisingly	KINSMAN
Fireplace in entertaining legend	INGLE
Frivolous old man after power in N Wales town	FLIPPANT
Gesture of great importance	SIGNAL
Good Scottish party welcomed by eg assistance animal	guide dog
In Irish county, see Scottish cow, perhaps	GALLOWAY
Indian peasant at entrance to university	HINDU
It sounds like everything a cobbler needs	AWL
Old astronomer’s girl and boy touring island	GALILEO
Old PM without teeth leaving gallery	EDEN
Post tablet a doctor finally supplies	PILLAR
Prospective groom accepting new money	FINANCE
Refusing to be going downhill	DECLINING
Represented on paper as tired and haggard	DRAWN
Searched around area regularly visited by ghosts	HAUNTED
Sheets of cloud included in illustration	STRATI
Spiritual leader, one with mother in Newcastle?	IMAM
Tranquillising drug, one taken with hesitation after work	OPIUM