The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28439 November 4 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28439
Clues	Answers
As the BBC initially unprepared for broadcast, they could land in hot water	BATHCUBES
Demo includes brief audition for leading lady	MATRIARCH
Did jaw of large ruminant set on parasite?	YAKKED
Doctor arguing with A&E drops monitor	rain gauge
Get big twig	catch on
I wish I could manage without small medical instrument!	OTOSCOPE
Language of African masseur as he periodically reflects	HAUSA
Less intelligent one in a party of Americans?	DOOFUS
Liqueur drunk neat: it's taken with tablet	ANISETTE
Lounge mainly before ten or eleven in Italy	LAZIO
Match at Roland Garros in summer?	ENCOUNTER
Mild Liberal getting stick all-round	CLEMENT
New Yorker's to take out taxi, speeding around houses	deep-six
Notice youth working toys with probe	poster boy
One had two banks purchase paper for the tellers	BIREME
One's past the final stage	IMAGO
Organised criminals? Not us, old boy!	the mob
Pass on the profits from one's takeaway business?	cash in ones chips
Passed girl going through dictionary	OKAYED
Revolutionary British football coach, one giving City its edge?	SUBURB
Sailors would get this close to divers with the bends	SCURVY
Saints in poor semifinal surprisingly demonstrating skill	PROFESSIONALISM
Small defence under pressure, promise to fight?	PILLBOX
The Tube one can take to Kew Gardens?	HOSEPIPE
To think well of something foul is very hard	like stink
Unmarried son's left old flames at home	INGLE
What a great time Deb and Rob and Seb all have!	BLAST
What voter can contribute to the Far Right?	ACROSS
Where choppers come down, the edge splitting skulls?	HELIPADS
With some energy deficiency, takes measures	SIZES
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2259
Clues	Answers
A thousand, I wager, is an error	MISTAKE
Admiral, primarily unsmiling, is back on a ship?	ASTERN
Animal is shy, old, and extremely tame	COYOTE
Chilling out initially near French city	on ice
Cope with it being muddled, like much of Shakespeare!	POETIC
Criminal going around an unknown gorge	CANYON
Former marine ultimately boards punctually	one-time
Goddess has proven useful, in part	VENUS
Holland's leader and Arab leader read out cordial greeting	HANDSHAKE
Idiot returns to sample tart	PASTRY
Instruction from germophobe host? Confess everything!	come clean
Island nation imports south Indian snack	SAMOSA
Man probing English prime minister's nickname	EPITHET
PC momentarily fixed for free	COMPLIMENTARY
Perhaps put down rooks in corners, for example?	set pieces
Seamstress at first makes fun of garments	SMOCKS
See alms distributed for illness	MEASLES
Silent parent	MUM
Speak highly of not beginning pay increase	RAISE
Treatment you're in store for?	retail therapy
Unfinished greenish-blue drink	TEA
Vicar's average child	PARSON
View through Downing Street?	VISTA
What a cat may get when eating small painting?	The Scream