The Times Cryptic May 22 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27671
Clues	Answers
After refreshment, writing sides	TEAMS
Awkward bachelor said to drink some liquor	BUTTERFINGERED
Big guns in article, Times story	the great gatsby
Book's editions	NUMBERS
Call round	RING
Cheers up in bedroom, regularly a source of inspiration	ERATO
Cryptic clue I see and explain	ELUCIDATE
Dash put in pastureland	ELAN
Experience became hard in two different ways	go through
Fantastic fruit, a good deal from Florida, say	LOTUS
Girl who's a boy after Channel crossing?	JEAN
In recital, poet is a striking performer	CYMBALIST
It's Parisian imprisoning a soldier most guarded	CAGIEST
Many suffering shocks, and nothing that amazes me, in theatre work	TONSILLECTOMY
Misfortune braved, admits leader of nouvelle vague	ill-defined
Moorland needs cultivated borders covered	ensheathed
Movement follows opening of fat camp	FACTION
Notice I alter bad swimming pool equipment	billiard table
Passages in street on dry island	STRETTI
Person inside ruffled lace mask	CONCEAL
Point in shock, impressive food course having no end	EPICENTRE
Serious work of German, oddly receiving smuggled drug	grand opera
Sign for esoteric sectarian	PROGNOSTIC
Test art works, little pieces	TATTERS
Top expert on board?	SURFACE
Wave, one that may be crashing?	BORE
Woke in seaside resort, topless	right-on
Write off note kid returned	TOTAL
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1619
Clues	Answers
Dilapidated slum door, something beaten alone	drum solo
Fish around lake, being at a loose end	IDLE
Fleeing from concoction of methanol	on the lam
Flesh mostly to freeze in tight corset	BODICE
Fruit revealed by lifting nail gun	UGLI
Gems editor’s penning lamer after revision	EMERALDS
Go after sex appeal in heavenly body	SATURN
Gradually develop passion for climbing: very English!	EVOLVE
Greeting school quintet	high-five
Heads for America __ Palm Springs __ enjoying recess	APSE
In Cyprus, settlers find apple	RUSSET
Link jam, surprisingly, with starter of unappealing spam	junk mail
Live at home, outside evacuated regional capital	BERLIN
My French diary recalled an Asian nomad	MONGOL
People giving up, heading from our IQ test, confused	QUITTERS
Place false statement before head of university	LIEU
Price of firm’s time	COST
Right about America’s corrosive influence	RUST
Royal Artillery’s turned up in dark to surrender weapons	DISARM
Sake? This can make you most unsteady!	SHAKIEST
Second refusal by old college to provide game	MONOPOLY
Supported __ or retreated?	BACKED
Took heart from freebie given to European political party	perked up
Upright, not upper class, old expert musician	VIRTUOSO
Yell, losing head, producing blade	OAR