The Times Cryptic March 22 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27931
Clues	Answers
A sturdy husband strays once a week it appears	THURSDAY
Back sport involving driving belt	FLOG
Call wife or mistress initially making a complaint	RINGWORM
Characters in good book mixed items for sale	job lot
Charming girl who comes out holding Mike?	DEBONAIR
Colourless chief scented bottles	ACHROMATIC
Dim boss recruits gumshoe	STUPID
Force units beset with housing projects	new towns
Gentle drunk outside Grand Hotel	LIGHT
Hospital treated polio with oil for masses	hoi polloi
Incorporate space by taking in odd edges	EMBODY
Irish judge accepts help lifting light up	IRRADIATE
Long to return carrying silver dish with piping	HAGGIS
Lots of seats here are not available	ARENA
Maybe paved way for short op that's botched	FOOTPATH
Memorable Beagle's mission? Collecting flora ultimately	HAUNTING
Old printer's good German book in sickly green	GUTENBERG
Part of film dealing with the Spanish dance	REEL
Romeo abandoning trio's second person once	THEE
Run through gardens in series	SKEWER
Skill in visualising successful movement of men on board?	DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
Small courts absorbing first of police raids	SWOOPS
Some people wait here __ others rave about a uniform	RESTAURANT
Substitute old piece in county briefly	SURROGATE
Talent's accompanying hard work: the making of small store?	gift shop
Top seed's English racket	NOISE
Tycoon, snooty type, entertains one on deck?	NABOB
Wild flower, less cold and flatter	butter up
Writer, one in ball, pirouetting	BIRO
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1835
Clues	Answers
Beginning working group	ONSET
Body of rook found in small wood	CORPSE
City house is sound again	ECHO
Cricketers take them out to lunch	BATS
English law set up after weapon used in part of boat	GUNWALE
Freeze ingredient for milk pudding that's not started	ICE
Good and moving death for mafia chief	GODFATHER
Grass covered by mould?	INFORMER
Herb, one about to be cut from church building	BASIL
I'd reversed some magic said to make disappear	DISPEL
Joke grasped by May Queen?	MAJESTY
Modern left party's ending __ we had a new union member	newly-wed
Moral project involving saint	JUST
Old beset by criticism, mostly long-suffering	STOIC
One in a well, keen to pull themselves up?	ASPIRING
One needs time and motivation for such a crime	TREASON
Owl flying close to the ground	LOW
Part of school programme's more taken off?	LESSON
Perfect female breaking all the rules	FLAWLESS
Secret society member criminal men so fear	FREEMASON
Small company about to be successful	SCORE
Smell article relating to a person	HUMAN
State offering some Alaskans a subsidy	KANSAS
Thaw encountered around heart of Himalayas	MELT
Urgently request ancient stories of devils?	IMPLORE
Waterbird heads for good river estuary to live	GREBE