The Times Cryptic June 18 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28007
Clues	Answers
A physicist, he died after backing human rights	BOHR
Bridge repair, one very often short?	CROSSPATCH
Coloured stone that’s become white when removed from casing	OPAL
Country fellow’s work in garden including digging at the margins	HODGE
Daring to spoon jam	BOTTLENECK
Duck removing foot from river	NIL
Eleven of Italy’s fifty islands __ rest over to the west	NAPOLI
Extra’s stage farewell	leg bye
Fired, perhaps, after lying about being led by bishop	BLAZING
Flexible management of redesigned coach yard	adhocracy
For Caesar, that is, time to depart	IDES
French department’s English staff returned to hold party	DORDOGNE
Give best after admitting one’s disadvantage	HANDICAP
Letters from abroad: at least twenty two?	XIS
Poorly preserved	laid up
Ray washes trousers and pants	BREATHS
Religious pioneer, one going against the mainstream	EDDY
Reserve medicines __ spare bottles	ICINESS
Rode with buggy as car started improperly?	hot-wired
See that on a broadcast and be amazed	eat ones hat
Short fat kid visits relations	great-aunts
Singer embracing Liberal lord, everyone embraced by Count!	all told
Spare, comparatively ancient, fuel tank	GASHOLDER
Standard way of talking up trouble in gallery	PRADO
Striking, say outside, you whip and punch	eye-catching
Twenty, on leaving Guinea, acquiring horse?	EQUID
Urge to fight: one’s content to be beaten eventually?	egg-box
Valued systems regularly used in these times	ASSESSED
What is needed to make its dough	TIN
Willing to move: one is keen, let’s get moving!	TELEKINESIS
Yellowish ring sent up by fag	OCHRE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1899
Clues	Answers
Ambassador attending qualifying round	HEAT
College lecturer breaking into a gift	DONATION
First vessel to be capsized	TOP
Former railway employee, an international trader	EXPORTER
Fortress you and I observed in rocky peak	TOWER
Girl needing hot bath finally after game	RUTH
Greek character, priest, consuming small cereal	MUESLI
Husband in peruke, a politician once	WHIG
Information to pass to defender?	FEEDBACK
It isn’t commonly a stain or blemish	TAINT
It may be sworn round at hotel	OATH
Italian poet’s output ultimately digested by Scandinavian	DANTE
Lowly-sounding bearing	MIEN
Muslim ruler old poem recalled	EMIR
Note about one oddly like a big cat	LEONINE
Passion not many displayed for European plant	FEVERFEW
Pester chaps involved in civil wrong	TORMENT
Plain girl set up to enter item in sports programme	EVIDENT
Prediction supporting English players	FORECAST
Reportedly everything a leather worker needs?	AWL
Rhode Island’s one and only minced meat dish	RISSOLE
Second outsize European deer	MOOSE
Songbird destroying leaf, if red	FIELDFARE
Southern gallery accommodating high-class sculpture	STATUE
Touch down by mistake in fallen earth and rock	LANDSLIP
Unexpected win associated with a monk’s blood relation	KINSWOMAN