The Times Cryptic April 1 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27940
Clues	Answers
A duck an alternative to minced meat?	not a sausage
A place for walk	AVENUE
Advantage held by seed, generally	EDGE
Bear scratching head well!	OOH
Bent wings of bluejay?	BANDY
Bring down five hundred and three on slides	DETHRONE
Complete day throwing fits	DOWNRIGHT
Eight nil: football team, one short, cross	OXFORD
Entering sustained campaign, contest comparatively less flat	WAVIER
Entering water, I function for a very short time	PICOSECOND
First signs of limp elastic in some worn bloomers?	LEI
He perhaps gets spattered with rain	inert gas
I didn't quite get that dance	excuse-me
Initiate action on a plane, perhaps?	strike up
Look after complete bishopric	OVERSEE
Numbing cold crushing Scott's heart, Amundsen ultimately coming first	NARCOTIC
Pitch a collection of works, overwhelmed by theatre award	TONALITY
Plan to cover place in our mouldy cheese	MOUSETRAP
Rank element in space above	STINKY
Second musical yarn	MOHAIR
Separate taste, as some wines drunk	BISECT
Starter had type of liquid served with a little bread	soup of the day
Try and catch	HEAR
Turn creative __ work on Picasso, primarily	party piece
Under root of tree, spare wood	EBONY
Very basic home situated in row	one-star
What big, mean delinquent has time for diminutive fighter?	BANTAMWEIGHT
What queen might do __ panic!	have kittens
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1843
Clues	Answers
Ada, rusty, exercising for twenty-four period	SATURDAY
An hour after midday, people with time for reconciliation	ATONEMENT
Article in study for head of college	DEAN
Book by unknown author following the French state	LEBANON
Bull and pig clean	HOGWASH
Complexity of small section attached to hospital	DEPTH
Cooker of very exquisite nosh (starters only)	OVEN
Crazy and terrible situation in which you’ll find Hazel?	NUTSHELL
Fit to dispute losing right	AGUE
From what we hear, deserve to get the bird	ERNE
German villain holds something for forging	ANVIL
Horticulturalist’s fantastic red range	GARDENER
Leading Roman Catholic staying in a hotel	ARCH
Lie around in the morning after returning message	EMAIL
Messing around idly, Dee gave up	YIELDED
Note exclamation of annoyance	DOH
One eating no fat fish	SPRAT
Quietly changes shapes in advance	preforms
Sat on beam, fence __ regularly picked up sticks	CEMENTS
Say nothing? Am false!	SHAM
Seb, taken aback by over-the-top editor, becoming obsessed	BESOTTED
Stylish Tessa coming out of her shell, outwardly dull	DRESSY
Tool found in workbench is electric	CHISEL
Trams made to crash in European capital	AMSTERDAM
Turned white with pain, having spilled blood all around	BLEACHED
United sailors in vessel	URN