The Times - Cryptic - August 4 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28360
Clues	Answers
A big shot at Old Trafford backs alliance	AXIS
A foreign chap resolved to stop youths making catapults?	launch pads
Army's building units designed to house exotic hens	Nissen hut
Blue Berets are defending Washington in the dark	UNAWARE
Charges around, arriving at yard	SPAR
Clubs previously accepting present unity	COHERENCE
Coercively given fare on behalf of church agent	force-fed
Daft old chap interrupts Mike	MORONIC
Dinghy or cutter?	LASER
Endearing English and Polish stylish clothing	CHERUBIC
Flyer, one broaching business scheme	co-pilot
Genuine article backing Conservative cut	ECHT
Initiate opening, taking in new Hancock sketch	blood donor
Irish officer touring eastern part of UK plant	GARDENIA
It bites your flesh, somehow avoiding uniform	HORSEFLY
Leader to check over refuge on way up	EDITORIAL
Liberal monk's wool supplier	LLAMA
Like hotel in wood	ASH
Lioness left commotion in Victoria state	El Salvador
Lovelorn old queen cheated	DID
Lower or upper regions adjacent to Pole	NETHER
Man loves probing margins of field for mice, say	cat food
Messenger once covered by other messengers	HERMES
Noted bank trousering a million	FAMED
Queen's consort caught cutting most of fruit	TOMCAT
Regularly chop cold venison source, having withdrawn seafood	COCKLE
Sailor's main dish cooked to entertain occupant of No 10	MIDSHIPMAN
Seesaw transformed local site	OSCILLATE
Set off briefly, grabbing a sheet	LEAF
Subtleties one's not seen in pests	NUANCES
Wise old Greek squad, running away	PLATO
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2193
Clues	Answers
A platform for rolling fish on table	SKATEBOARD
Bundle of tissue in giant elm tangled	LIGAMENT
Church room exceptionally entered by short street	VESTRY
Flap as night flyer returns	TAB
Good man raised idea, half foolish	STUPID
Greedy to rely on kid's savings here?	piggy bank
Groom partner to keep going finally in tricky game	BRIDGE
Harmless sort of tiger may be decorative on the wall	PAPER
Key copier, one getting away?	ESCAPER
Labourer against entering one of the armed forces	NAVVY
Landed __ correct __ then confined	PROPERTIED
Large rock overturned	BIG
Look at American soldier with cold reason	LOGIC
Make random selection from actors, great numbers	cast lots
One heading for Arctic following sea channels	MEDIA
One made from flour, or flower	BLOOMER
Opening pub is very fine, but to no purpose	in vain
Pathetic sailor caught in a stream	ABJECT
Raise an attempted robbery	hold up
Trivial yet extraordinary subject of theory	RELATIVITY
Twitch seen regularly	TIC
Welshman losing footing on platform	DAI
What can hold together masseur and pop group?	rubber band
With this lens, capture elephant (not ant!) in toto?	TELEPHOTO