The Times Cryptic March 31 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27939
Clues	Answers
Asian mountaineer eats her partner's sandwiches	SHERPA
Cross character in formal attire getting up to go	EXIT
Dismisses detective from NE town?	red-cards
Favour reduction of violence initially during outrage	APPROVAL
Fighting resistance where RAF can't, sadly	trench warfare
Fine organic compound's gradually become bitter	FESTER
Guardian for one needing to rely on charity	national trust
Harrow wine stored here, maybe	RACK
Having turned back, swimmer out of wind	LEE
Held good girl in school	COHERED
Historic rent then due in six hours?	quarter day
Immoderate display of leg on demand	WANTON
Infantry under 50% of army? Never!	my foot
Instructions to follow prophet, holding image skyward	RECIPES
Jacket, etc, that motorist's in most often?	top gear
Just right profile of monarch seen here?	on the money
Left standing on public view, naked	OUTSTRIPPED
Most peculiar doctor that is retreating in one direction	WEIRDEST
Odd bod and I agreed to break up, naturally	BIODEGRADE
Opportunity to wind up German leader, perhaps	CHANCELLOR
Paper's previous boss went on and on	LASTED
Protrude over centre of green fibrous plant	JUTE
Resolution from British, united after reverse	BACKBONE
Second hazard close to Scylla	BETA
Stone Age love dismissed by books	PERIDOT
Teacher briefly trained house's first champion runner	CHEETAH
Two promising words in contrived language	IDO
Vintage shed erected, with familiar roofing	old-time
Vote upsetting to Liberal and another party	BALLOT
Wake on high, having passed over?	vapour trail
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1842
Clues	Answers
Achievement of force invading eastern stronghold	EFFORT
Amphibian in river enveloped in thick mist	FROG
Boyfriend’s part of East End, according to report	BEAU
Brother at college, one from Saint-Malo, perhaps	BRETON
Campaigner’s appeal accepted by simple king	CRUSADER
Change table, in a manner of speaking	ALTER
Distinguished actor, one appearing in musical	OLIVIER
Drink with everyone before work	WALLOP
For example, Sikes’s account?	BILL
Gather information from society girl on raging fire	DEBRIEF
Holiday-makers __ sort Uist cultivated	TOURISTS
Inferior porcelain in place of horse trials	BADMINTON
Little-known old remedy protecting Bachelor of Surgery	OBSCURE
Long to get up for Muslim festival	EID
Mammoth’s tooth traveller originally found by Welsh river	TUSK
Mistake made by little brat losing head	ERROR
Old language the French can put together	LATIN
Perspicacity one shows at first in period of darkness	INSIGHT
Quantity of liquid served by graduate liable to err	BASINFUL
Reduce short skirt seen in vessel	DIMINISH
Sent on prescribed course and heavily defeated	ROUTED
Skilled writer’s angry talk with German husband	WORDSMITH
Small detached territory where one’s allowed to meet	ISLET
The purpose of American English?	USE
Trendy act? Absolutely	INDEED
Worker embracing girl in Central American state	BELIZE