The Times Cryptic July 7 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28023
Clues	Answers
Agitator in East London ready on complex brief	FIREBRAND
Blade worn must have edges switched	DAGGER
Busy worker securing wheels needs a cold drink	bering sea
Coin going with shillings to make a group	SPECIES
Common little man seen in bar	PREVALENT
Cultivated sort names Saracen in novel	renaissance man
Cunning Italian author entertains duke in style	art deco
Current setter involved in predicament	jet stream
Day was one men overturned skip	ROBIN
Desperate to survive drop	last-ditch
Dignified senior to receive award	SOBER
Dreadful meal in time causes illness	AILMENT
Escargots presumably not available on such menus?	fast food
Everything and nothing close to Boudicca's town	ALLOA
Farmer once in rising river amusing duck	MACDONALD
Fights about casserole containing fine seafood	SWORDFISH
Go over what appears in eruption	REHASH
Greed a wicked habit that holds painter back	AVARICE
Honey badger's length adding to value	RATEL
I was in van going north touring hot capital territory	DELHI
Important aborigine not one to accommodate Jack	MAJOR
Irishman puts island first with everything considered	in all
Keeps quiet about a temperature showing changes	MUTATES
One's intended to bank note as money	FINANCE
Refuse to be moved and he could receive summons!	DUSTMAN
Revolutionary socialist cause in As You Like It?	to order
Some toper in pub interfered with mate	opposite number
Something pinned to hem in fabric	GRENADINE
Thick fog that envelops delta	MIDST
Trespass for one snaring new bird without tail	ENCROACH
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1912
Clues	Answers
Argue on and off for years?	AGE
Arrive with funny performer half cut	COME
Artist, one allegedly blind, in the capital	RABAT
Assume exercise will be needed after a party	ADOPT
Cheat who may be responsible for a bad deal	card sharp
Composer's lark, for example, heard	BYRD
Discerning what an optician could help you to be	clear-sighted
Get better sort of truck	pick-up
Giving drug to pet? What's wrong in that?	DOSING
I'm scared and keep looking round endlessly	EEK
Landor could be an English poet	ARNOLD
Old country club by Yorkshire river	MACEDON
Passing a month with effortlessness	DECEASE
Piece of text provided by soldier with diagram	PARAGRAPH
Publication with nothing to be taken the wrong way, all right?	e-book
Puts down on paper remarkable sporting achievements?	RECORDS
Respected veteran, unusual person working on paper?	VENERATED
Returning minister taken in by American dishonesty?	KNAVERY
Second man to entertain bishop in small room?	CABIN
Skilled worker is prejudiced, first to come out	ARTISAN
Some fanatical vindictive churchman of yesteryear	CALVIN
Spectators, mostly very wise, somehow	VIEWERS
The German, upset and miserable	SAD
They may arrange accommodation at large non-English events abroad	travel agents
Unhappy journalists participating in action	DEPRESSED
What's provided in lunch and tea	CHA