The Times Cryptic April 7 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27945
Clues	Answers
A pair of characters in lower hot pants	DIPHTHONG
Convinced India and China in secret	CONFIDENTIALLY
Corrected vice with least resigned phrase	cest la vie
Drop litter with domestic servant	WHELP
Faithless fellow's missing at job	HEIST
Feeling life, say, or time is overwhelming one	SENTIENCE
He composed line in exam papers the wrong way	VIVALDI
Inciting rebellion, no small issue	EDITION
Inspired, Dante pens literary collection	EDDA
Involved in non-conformism, I would ... be this?	DISSIDENT
Killer's aim with direct shot	MATRICIDE
Like Urdu musical that's turned round mood	INDICATIVE
Love to form a bond that's outstanding	OWED
Making a comeback, lives on energy drink	PEPSI
Maybe charge writer in old case of sacrilege	EXPENSE
Must those who don't know the score do so?	sight-read
Oddly, dress Penny with possibly crude sack	DESPOIL
Peasant's home south of foreign town	VILLEIN
Picked out cape and stockings	CHOSE
Player of instruments interpreted disco hit, right?	HARPSICHORDIST
Popular artist in funky blues allowing cover	INSURABLE
School now, then this? A learner's acting alone	UNILATERAL
Sign in book store missing line	LIBRA
Some stock book by Latin poet	BOVID
Stand or move gently left	EASEL
The French state's Eurosceptics	LEAVERS
The setter shows contentment in supporting structure	i-beam
They soothe a temperature, tucking into round pastries	OPIATES
What may be tense in Linear B __ it's translated	NAILBITER
Where diggers work with spades __ it's awful	the pits
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1847
Clues	Answers
Amiable, and at close of day extremely lively	FRIENDLY
Area used to be hot and seriously flooded	AWASH
Dedicated action inspiring five religious books	DEVOTED
Diving duck scared at first by cat's cry	SMEW
Drunk son's inappropriate garment?	TIGHTS
Fearful, but again subject to uncertainty?	REDOUBTABLE
Groovy attempt to secure goal	TRENDY
Group of witches beginning to clean stove	COVEN
H, perhaps, in the role of buccaneer?	ASPIRATE
Japanese verse originally hidden away in Kyoto university	HAIKU
Live among opponents in French resort	ANTIBES
Molten rock mother observed around foot of berg	MAGMA
Noble old general giving up whiskey for jazzman	duke ellington
Old way the French primarily regarded a stableman	OSTLER
Possible earl in Gateshead, having a close look	PEERING
Reportedly bring in bird of prey	ERNE
Stick one's nose in, hearing gong	MEDDLE
Symbol adopted by Vladivostok entrepreneurs	TOKEN
Three-dimensional scene Ivor regularly included in play	DIORAMA
Time to walk with swinging motion? Nonsense	TWADDLE
Unseen, a badger tormented a bovine animal	aberdeen angus
Woman in US city, one looking after children	NANNY
Worrying at first, a phase in degeneration	WASTAGE
Youth in case once led astray	ADOLESCENCE