The Times - Cryptic - August 25 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28378
Clues	Answers
A duck or ducks	LOVE
Beholds an unusually fair lady	ash blonde
Being flameproof, vests ultimately a hit with US hospital department	SALAMANDER
Capital made of one "very naughty boy" holding nothing back	NAIROBI
Copper, officer who inspires devotion?	CULT
Enquiry's led with nothing odd in mind	NURSE
Finally, feeling poorly, you get a breather	GILL
Firm support for committee in crisis?	COBRA
Getting one's fair share to eat, after clinching English league	FEDERATION
Groups tramp through my local area last of all	PHYLA
Hood for one to prepare in vestry	robing room
Mountain transport being cut back interrupts take-off	ski lift
Odd man out: one must enter playing field	DIAMOND
Old king hoarded wine bottles	EDWIN
Our team had row before golf match	WEDDING
Part of treatment for Jack's brother to have daily	brown paper
Passage one's going to broadcast	AISLE
Proceed clumsily __ you fall behind, reversing at speed	GALUMPH
Row after whip becomes more spiteful	CATTIER
Ruse native maybe's done in lab with airgun	BULGARIAN
Serving in household, however large, royal home included	butlering
Some chicken leg remains from a classic order	PARTHENON
Sound of one planting tree	CEDAR
Source of power in the Information Age at peak	GENERATOR
State name, number after one is hauled up	NIGER
Strikes clues: a certain number removed	HITS
The city of Charlotte located east of Fairfax?	ROCHESTER
Trouble leading to arrest: ring for the minister!	dog collar
Were a couple of hours fairly employed in school?	COHABITED
Whiff of something unpleasant in impetuous senior pupil	head boy
Workers organised party on river for Mary?	TUDOR
Young Italian graduate doctor with two November visits	BAMBINI
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2208
Clues	Answers
Adrian regularly observed writer's language	ARABIC
After work, one Greek character returned narcotic substance	OPIUM
Better to drink port bottled by that female Cockney	SUPERIOR
Bill, mascot having no clothing __ saucy stuff	TABASCO
Caribbean island's medical officer terribly stern with rogue	MONTSERRAT
Crack a potty	GAGA
Dear partner previously deep in thought	EXPENSIVE
Doctor joins French friend on old Japanese craft	ORIGAMI
Father in charge lifting clenched hand __ he's no fighter	PACIFIST
Gilt ensign at sea, shimmering	GLISTENING
Idiot Des vandalised unusual things	ODDITIES
Model pursues surgery to face	OPPOSE
Monster in video green	OGRE
Mother during rest returned message	EMAIL
Move slowly and gradually in church	INCH
Musical performance involving clarinet, not new	RECITAL
Offer to keep training two-footed animal	BIPED
Performing wild cats ignoring large vegetables	ONIONS
Rebuke suspect a lot around periphery of Kent	talk to
Religious follower encountered brick-carrier first	METHODIST
Robert's hairstyle	BOB
Seafood soup rotten at end of month	OCTOPUS
Showery at home, interrupting bit of sunshine	RAINY
Sort of court that's run by the unlawful bounder?	KANGAROO
Stream good alongside bad	GILL
The elderly quietly agreed	YEP