The Times - Cryptic - November 11 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28132
Clues	Answers
Band from north in fix	RING
Barely fitting	JUST
Being critical of second boozer's action	knocking back
Careless pugilist punching explorer in the dark	CAVALIER
Composer's new edition with tango and waltz, finally	DONIZETTI
Early warning, marine style, with justification	alarm call
From which "mother" dispenses liquid, note, and a drug	TEAPOT
Heartless harassed men on board lose control	go to pieces
Large university with originality, but no energy, raking in money	LUCRATIVE
Low bar ultimately fell	MOOR
Multinational blocked by current worker involving two factions	BIPARTISAN
Party reflected my family's quality	ODOUR
Poser, easy one	SITTER
Regular winter visitor on voyage told of Californian resort	santa cruz
Release article rejected by BBC	UNTIE
Request for exemption from noble marquise on vacation abroad	count me out
Roof opening to allow passage of beams	SKYLIGHT
Son, no longer effective, determined to quit	sworn off
Starts joint exit illicitly during service	jump ship
Succeeded in winning holiday that begins and ends here?	landing strip
Tap on bottom that may disturb one's rest	BEDBUG
Treacheries scuppered if I listened in, mostly	infidelities
Twice old guards left Iberian city	OPORTO
Vitriolic sodium or calcium symbolically mixed	mordacious
Weaken a magnet when picked up	ABATE
What's the betting contracted game won't start?	EVENS
With two runs failing, could cute programmer produce it?	computer game
Worry about featuring in paper	FRET
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2003
Clues	Answers
A bitter drunk __ it may go to cardinal's head	BIRETTA
Article misrepresented performance	RECITAL
Becomes the winner, reportedly, in children's game	CONKERS
Daughter must leave expensive organ	EAR
Delete part of chapter, as expected	ERASE
Exercised control, with name for duke proposed	NOMINATED
Frightful bores, sedate and rational	SOBER
Furious, judge after one	IRATE
Grey coat, out of place in class	CATEGORY
Has girl confused about an imaginary paradise	shangri-la
Having little or no rain in Kalahari Desert	ARID
Head pupil at Eton, say, may get a pantomime role	principal boy
Health's going, suffering in disputed ME territory	golan heights
In excellent health all right	very well
Lift boy picked up	FILLIP
Mixture of mostly tropical fruit	APRICOT
Peculiar piano seat	RUMP
Philanthropic scientist in Brazil's capital during Christmas	NOBEL
Put on leg pad, ultimately	STAGED
Royal domain in actual miles	REALM
Sheep in wood, by the sound of it	EWE
Soldier, in consequence, left umbrella	PARASOL
Story involving British item of furniture	TABLE
Supporter with two sons gives money	BRASS
Went out, being no longer fashionable	DATED
What can make salt last?	ANAGRAM