The Times - Cryptic - October 7 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28415
Clues	Answers
Beer taken around a camp	LAAGER
Boy who's fast failing to finish	LEN
Brother to present with a bouquet	FRAGRANT
Capital but short name for dog	CAIRN
Consciously old-fashioned sort of literary fiction?	ANTINOVEL
Councillor of state that is doubly close to emperor	VIZIER
Current year opening for information bureau	AGENCY
Dashing knight mounted horse, holding hawk occasionally	RAKISH
Declaration from senator is out of order	ASSERTION
Dish needed by the phone	CHARGER
Do drudgery for Dickens	DEVIL
Fight here to value jewellery	prize ring
Fish picked up in this paper	RAG
Flying is stunning	AWING
Have left speaking; I don't react	ARGON
Heavenly cake decoration left behind	ANGELICAL
Joined up and served? Not I	SOLDERED
Long ribbons to wind around a legal title	TAGLIATELLE
Mean drunk first to be given meal outside	tight-fisted
Milk producer breaking bottom off jug	EWE
No power to take up in tired arms	WEAPONRY
Old coin, one lying in the sun?	TANNER
PC, and a different PC with no husband	right-on
Poor ruler given better brain supplement	thinking cap
Refinement of sister touring a church	NUANCE
Scowl from unyielding champion	GRIMACE
Several horses, a sort of quartet?	STRING
Solution not entirely fully explained	LYE
Spit out, then apply tongue round __ to adjust this?	LIPSTICK
Sublime swindle taking in some: don't fall into it!	grand canyon
This term, alternative to I Kings used	royal we
Woman is pleased? Yes, extremely	GLADYS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2239
Clues	Answers
Artist featured in ridiculously mad play	DRAMA
At home, we hear, where travellers rest?	INN
Celebrity journalist gawped	STARED
Claim is so false in one sort of political philosophy	SOCIALISM
Daddy's dance	PAS
Expert in one form of renewable energy collecting honour	SCHOLAR
Explain vessel carried around by Shakespearean character	clear up
Girl clutches leg, lying on back	SUPINE
Insects __ two of them in rubbish	BEES
Land not clayey?	LIGHT
Malfunctioning lamps, a feature of church service?	PSALM
Men are not properly organised in a small unit	NANOMETRE
Notice one model, concerned with fat	ADIPOSE
One church composer, a big cold lump!	ICEBERG
Opinion that may be obtuse	ANGLE
Party introducing rules completely upset monarch once	OSWALD
Perils bringing death to French city	ENDANGERS
Reformist Ann could turn out to be a pioneer	FRONTIERSMAN
Regret game ending in battle	RUE
Repair shop led by engineers	RESTORE
Rubbish collector to jump	SKIP
Senior teacher desires maths to be done differently	HEADMISTRESS
Son getting drunk must be examined	SCANNED
Top position? Not quite for this animal	APE
Way bad person gets nothing right __ officer to step in?	MODERATOR
Woman within crossword diagram?	INGRID