The Times Cryptic June 14 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28003
Clues	Answers
A briny-sounding dish, something tackled by soldiers in training	assault course
A doctor probing eyes, we hear, and feet	IAMBI
After a fight, go for a change of direction	about-turn
Ambitious individual initially employed in a period of growth	ASPIRING
Ancient Asian country's means of communication?	MEDIA
Cheese the old soldiers provided with good game	GRUYERE
Complaint demanding attention by a guerrilla leader	EARACHE
Confuse reigning monarch in endless peril	DERANGE
Consequences of a fine period of work at Harrow, primarily	AFTERMATH
Cook run into by duke's open car	ROADSTER
Disguise the nature of feminine opinion	BELIEF
Drill first of recruits in section	PIERCE
Flexible directions for entering illuminated residence	LITHESOME
Ghostly atmosphere finally invading republic to the west	EERIE
Hurt, I came falteringly, having joint pain	RHEUMATIC
It makes one girl extremely eager to support college	UNIFIER
Keyboard instrument Melba and co recollected	CEMBALO
Light shawl originally fashionable in central Manchuria	FICHU
Like some old Peruvians ready to broadcast?	INCAN
Man, say, overcome by a passage in church	AISLE
Mushy journalist tires boss out	sob sister
One tells where a schoolkid may be, with a set of books	INFORMANT
Rituals the French introduced, serving no purpose	USELESS
Rotating platform finally built by high-class sailors on board	TURNTABLE
Subservient to a French communist revolutionary	UNDER
Superior, say, tucking into pork pie	LIEGE
Supporter about to enthuse briefly before United's brilliant display	BRAVURA
Ultimately hesitate and defer such misguided gloating	SCHADENFREUDE
Verbal report of one missing glossy coating?	LACQUER
Wordbook the governor's brought into house	THESAURUS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1895
Clues	Answers
Article about the most prolific author?	ANON
Away three months or so, when it's cheaper	off season
Be no longer first	EXIST
Before end of parade, medals far too heavy	OBESE
Bird seen round loch is quail	FLINCH
Catch bluebottle	COP
Check girl underground gets drinking bowl	CHALICE
Cleric is hopeless at first in dance	BISHOP
Feeble king to use his brain	THINK
Fruit drinks, just short, filled with ice	JUICES
Harvest worker extremely prone to break back	REAPER
Language making sober actor struggle	serbo-croat
Large hole right at side of case	CRATER
Little number donned always? This is the only chance	now or never
Memorised last of story in the bar, drunk	by heart
One turned to reach the wine	CORKSCREW
Perhaps straw one is easily taken in	SUCKER
Some sweet nature, but it is liable to erupt	ETNA
Spare man ordered this to go on pasta perhaps	PARMESAN
Swordsman who puts up a barrier	FENCER
Take top off slightly open pot	JAR
To limit error, confirms flight	checks in
To perform on stage, I have to be brisk	ACTIVE
Waterproof being worn is red	MACON