The Times - Cryptic - October 14 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28108
Clues	Answers
Affliction I found aboard vessel	PAIN
Arab ruler retaining good worker, one about to leave?	EMIGRANT
As some might say: despicable local fiddle	VIOLIN
Bludgeon zealots in revolution	STUN
Dictator's way to put up country seat	manor house
Discerning head of trade should stop moaning	SIGHTING
Dye-producing plant doing badly, I admitted	INDIGO
Eccentric president managed to divide Right	ABERRANT
Failed to meet old love after street party	stood up
Fine avoided by prosperous drunkard	LUSH
First course almost 60 per cent of lunch __ dig in!	ENTRENCH
Flood ruins exotic hotel	INRUSH
Foreign bread from Quebec popular with sailor	QINTAR
How demand changes by end of season for used kit	hand-me-down
Informer picked up illegal bit of tack	NOSEBAND
Island in France that's south of Bird Island	MARTINIQUE
Journalist raised small (very small) fortune	DESTINY
Lady, still unclothed, grabbed by first male turning up	MATILDA
Lie back on odd occasions, finding unexpected release	LEAK
Limit relaxation, taking shower?	RESTRAIN
Line up, like soldiers with foot problem quarrelling	falling out
Pleas person expresses on catching fish	PRAYERS
Raved after traveller returned bearing bouquet	PERFUMED
Retiring commie director, heading off to get pasta	TORTELLINI
Rising complaint from new leader of distinction in ancient city	the bends
Society leaders refuse to penetrate heart of legation	GLITTERATI
Teetotal Tyneside dons exonerate high street trader	dry cleaner
With rampaging lion about, maiden's in perilous position	out on a limb
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1983
Clues	Answers
After church, queen left for station	CHANNEL
Boy doing some spring-cleaning briefly	DUSTIN
Brings up Religious Education in English county	BREEDS
Comes across revolutionary art and poetry	TRAVERSES
Country dwelling with animal enclosure outside over the top	COTTAGE
Deer spotted woodcutter	BUCKSAW
Emperor's carriage crossing sea to the north	CAESAR
Flushed, but hardly flush, in this	RED
Game of golf embraced by newlywed	BRIDGE
Large stain ruined old pegs	SPLODGE
Meaning to join doctor, if time	DRIFT
Monarch raving to vicar about one	VICTORIA
Nearly all getting into animal doctor's clean car	VALET
New wardens on the way for golf club	St Andrews
Old language the French preserve	LATIN
One judge getting angry	IRATE
Promise without really delivering, at first	WORD
Reflecting some merit, lasses feature on Scottish flag!	SALTIRE
Row about Liberal alternative to Thatcher?	TILER
Rush to NE, moving from different direction	SOUTHERN
Someone who has depression, missing daughter	OWNER
Stare, with old boy turning up in summerhouse	GAZEBO
Starts on some Kafka: a German yarn	SKEIN
Surrenders primitive weapons	BOWS
Unions returning on a smaller scale?	CUT
Very little weight carried by announcement	OUNCE
When to expect moisture, it's said, on fruit	due date
Where luggage goes as a precaution	in case