The Times - Cryptic - August 17 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28058
Clues	Answers
Answer arrived about Donne's case in scholarly life	ACADEME
Belief shattered with ends justifying means?	DEFENSIBLE
Change mind about Sappers being disloyal	RECREANT
Doing as ordered one's coming to conclusion	DIAGNOSIS
Eschewing contact with others, start to assess note spies left	ASOCIAL
Gabby, endlessly demanding girl about five	TALKATIVE
Gaunt old American put onto man in saloon	CADAVEROUS
Hide from huge bird with two tails coming in low	MOROCCO
Indiscretion where rogue hostile after short strike over	PECCADILLO
Island century or so ago banning travel	CORSICA
Landing stage needed to support artillery weapon	RAPIER
Leader in Rome close to Spanish Pope	HADRIAN
Muddled men, fools, not quite together	en masse
Natural way to achieve financial independence	easy street
Not British, Weimar dramatist is genuine	ECHT
One found by American poet wanting wife gone?	HITMAN
One's relations are entertaining Eurocrat soused around noon?	RACONTEUR
Range of mushrooms sent back with cap trimmed	SPECTRUM
See great changes in cheaper accommodation	STEERAGE
Sign with a hand that’s repulsed reviewer	DIACRITIC
Simple tune not bad but lacking introduction	AIR
Some script __ girl mostly follows it	ITALIC
Stepped in time with baton	TROD
Sugar in old Greek territory reportedly less common	DEMERARA
Switching starters, badger old woman for bottle	MAGNUM
Tackle crack soldiers sent amongst leaderless group	EQUIPMENT
Tenant not so keen to give up housing	LESSEE
Time's cut short with this, might we presume?	SCYTHE
Tons in river added to maintain pressure without planning	EXTEMPORE
Tribesman put sash round	IBO
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1941
Clues	Answers
A fair on fire	ALIGHT
A pass back	AGO
Appetiser in tin found by primate	CANAPE
Bewildered Tory joined	CONFUSED
Calm there got disturbed	TOGETHER
Cancel Rugby Union contest	rub out
Dungeons later vandalised, one looking down in the mouth?	dental surgeon
Equipment packed in luggage arrives	GEAR
Flatten large beast, then sleep	BULLDOZE
Gossip, blatantly lying, answering back initially	BLAB
Horse, an old joke	CHESTNUT
Naked, grizzly animal reportedly?	BARE
Prison fridge?	COOLER
Pure drunk hosting a very boisterous party	rave-up
Raise back	REAR
Room in general thoroughfare	LEEWAY
See meltwater then?	NOTICE
Slightly tame show broadcast	SOMEWHAT
Starring element?	LEAD
State has a long time to produce standard figures	AVERAGES
Tricked when twin marked ballot paper?	double-crossed
Ultimately devious, little chap a local pain?	STITCH
Untidy collection in the apartment	HEAP