The Times - Cryptic - July 15 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28030
Clues	Answers
Composer twice drinks litre before start of symphony	BLISS
Convert polyester for weaving	PROSELYTE
Counter bachelor’s gibe	BARB
Design super robots to save energy making rackets	OBSTREPEROUS
Dracula's health indicator?	blood count
Fan like this in part of the UK visiting the Orient	ENTHUSIAST
Figure doing poet harm?	METAPHOR
Growth expert organised Anglicans gathering underground	PROTUBERANCE
Having a go at tiresome job for judge	TRYING
Help individual to crack nuts	MAID
I tot up minutes perhaps in modest study of scores, etc	MUSICOLOGY
Ideal location: best one's in centre of square	UTOPIA
Look, media queries regularly reveal a compulsion to match colleagues	peer pressure
Medic in row with CID logs in here	TIMBERYARD
Mirror orders occasionally incomplete logo	RESEMBLE
Old boy with fly catches first of common carp	OBJECT
One gives nothing away about computer game returns	MISER
Pass over present that may divert sailors	CROSSCURRENT
Poet with horrible old retro GI uniform	olive drab
Poor old American introduced to lady without notice	LOUSY
Recall past rock group is boring in church	REMINISCE
Rocks and water guarding top-class freezer	ICEHOUSE
Shame about a diver's descent	PATERNITY
Shoot scene running round island	SCION
Smart bear nicking king’s desktop device	INKSTAND
Target six clubs with German backing	VICTIM
Turn up suitable bucket	TEEM
Woodcutter has a nap, ignoring hole	ADZE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1918
Clues	Answers
Again photograph changing shore at first over time	RESHOOT
Building material church folk accept finally	CEMENT
Charlie's vacuum cleaner?	SUCKER
Commander Mike to hand over navigational device	COMPASS
Desert marathon perhaps an exhausting grind	rat race
Fizzy drink small, easy to reach	SHANDY
Fly circles minute eatery	tea room
Hard sweet idiot let fall	lemon drop
Heated the Spanish accommodation	HOTEL
Highly esteemed lady longing to probe teacher, English	DOYENNE
Husband at home in resting place, running late	BEHIND
Just pants put on line	LAWFUL
Legendary musketeer in combat, hostile	ATHOS
Loner ordered to join army?	ENROL
Naval chief revised chart to include variable London landmark	Admiralty Arch
Notice minister flipped on key part of speech	ADVERB
One's fixed on banger maybe left on dish	l-plate
Only distributed new fabric	NYLON
Outline you need help to lift weight	DIAGRAM
Protective wear Rachel half concealed on police force	HELMET
Religious class absorbed by the Trinity	THREE
Son called during trial __ most odd	STRANGEST
Temperature having dropped, fear slip	ERROR
Well suited to the job, athletic pro scrambled up ropes	fit for purpose