The Times - Cryptic - November 1 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28123
Clues	Answers
Alive and kicking?	on the ball
Around and around, circle tree	CACAO
Articulate main character	CEE
Baldie snatching that lady's cigar	CHEROOT
Blood spilt ultimately in support of county	CLARET
Brilliant player in team runs so amazingly	MAESTRO
Buried in South Africa, bird bones	STERNA
By the sound of it, consideration nailed down	TACKED
City that may similarly be built up?	CIVIC
Club that spurs one on	DRIVER
Dismiss Sale's back, punching rugger thug	rule out
English wood with tree rot	EYEWASH
Footballer hugging old man in love	BESOTTED
Great catcher rising after pass	COLOSSAL
Ill fortune covering sport	BADMINTON
Important time to plug bottle	VITAL
Maybe make marks with key on daughter’s lucky purchase?	SCRATCHCARD
Network admits staff looked in pain	GRIMACED
Old PM in Wilson or Thatcher	NORTH
One books male singer: to acquire female as stripper, finally?	in the altogether
Organ recital, almost exquisite, starts up	EAR
Page penned by retiring Tories __ protection for that?	COPYRIGHT
Reference contents of chest in sign	THESAURUS
Right over hill, finding revolver	ROTOR
Sweet to see so much dancing, pop joining in	chocolate mousse
Tackling forbidden in the end, a sport unfortunately isn't for defender	patron saint
Too much to ask, request for large coffee?	tall order
Type relocating to hamlet	hot metal
Warm salutation	TOAST
Where builder might have faith, back of ladder being held __ step up	INCREMENT
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1995
Clues	Answers
Altered outer course	ROUTE
Block new farm building	BARN
Changeable writer to stop going through dictionary	open-ended
Cheese produced to the north	EDAM
Colin, giving away nothing, in charge of private hospital	CLINIC
Copenhagen citizen maybe eating grub half ignored famous river	DANUBE
Dog award accepted by doctor on staff	DOBERMAN
Drunk European in Britain troubled newsman	INEBRIATED
Funereal vehicle picks up elders initially	HEARSE
Headwear that's uncovered	HAT
Horse grabbing Mike's grooming implement	COMB
I must accompany soldiers in specialist trial	EXPERIMENT
Irish city's naval team that's driven in and out of port maybe	CORKSCREW
Like some cakes I'd put around church	ICED
Map __ volunteers recalled it on crop-growing estate	PLANTATION
Moderate single daughter in urban community	tone down
Occasionally require old currency	EURO
Outside in drizzle, identify tyrant	DESPOT
Potty about American work of music?	OPUS
Pregnant woman's doctor with the gown obtaining temperature	mother-to-be
Prison in west Iraq	STIR
Small farm councillor attends frequently	CROFT
Surrounded by morning papers, sat peripherally	AMIDST
Unit reformed our sailors, one after another	in turn
Want massage, reportedly	NEED