The Times Cryptic July 8 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28024
Clues	Answers
Countryman losing fifty days is bound to work	YOKED
Covert adviser hopeless in emergencies	Eminence grise
Cry from learner in difficulty close to corner	HOLLER
Current show time?	present-day
Extravagant female youth worker hosting bash	FLAMBOYANT
Flummoxed announcer's finished in US	THREW
Heterosexual couple disheartened evangelical wing of church	lady chapel
In Blackpool, say, where one can walk for miles?	PROM
In the past, US city retreat charged too much	OVERLADEN
Instructions at race supplied by willing firm before game	ready steady go
Joggers do it right, in small measure	TROT
Knocks loose board in Norfolk town	DISLODGES
Millions withdrawn from Square Mile __ somehow it restores the balance	EQUALISER
Opening jump	START
Public authority on the spot	OUTRIGHT
Ridicule rising with refuse appearing outside some outdoor event	garden party
Sailor's shanty came briefly unstuck	YACHTSMEN
Screw up and down	FLUFF
Shock treatment for a criminal?	AFRO
Small amount of material initially covered in course	PATCH
Small bristle cut	SAWN
Substance keeping dry, so it appears, inside drain	DESICCANT
Suffering trauma? Ask for stimulating reading matter?	kama sutra
Team up, selecting the odd foreign character	TAU
Three quarters of squad leaves	TEA
Topless star left the pits unrecognised	UNLAWFUL
Untimely work in popular haven, French one	INOPPORTUNE
Writer following almost all the usual staff for a hike	ALPENSTOCK
Yaks, grand beasts of burden	GASSES
Youngster ultimately despises Holy Joe	SPRIG
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1913
Clues	Answers
Actor's article's on how play begins	THESP
Beat with right hand? Dreadful myth	RHYTHM
Black distillate company placed on communion table	coal tar
Commercial at this point getting stick	ADHERE
Cuppa from Peg, we hear	TEA
Father Ted in a curious yellow	FAINTHEARTED
Frees one in Calais? He's crossing meadows	UNLEASHES
Idle head one can toast?	LOAF
It follows chicken: empty cage	HENCE
Lascivious looks Dougal gets every so often	OGLES
Leave Father Jack in the end holding last of liquor	PARK
Mass, I bet, is a blunder	MISTAKE
Name Old Boy in case most virtuous	NOBLEST
One feels insect repelled girl	ANTENNA
One's holding loud objections	IFS
Praise, employing some pretext, oligarch	EXTOL
Put out tabloid newspaper: about time	STUN
Refusals of Pope, finally, to visit Craggy Island	DENIALS
Sign left one bishop really angry, to start with	LIBRA
Some attitude: let everyone strike!	DELETE
Strange priests carry on	PERSIST
Trouble acquiring voting system within a month	APRIL
Tune Mrs Doyle ruined to a great extent	TREMENDOUSLY
Willing maiden grabbed by anonymous Greek hero	AGAMEMNON
Withdraw from paradise, briefly after a moment	SECEDE
Work, going forward and back, for counterpart	OPPO