The Times - Cryptic - November 30 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28148
Clues	Answers
A bishop trapped by two men in tangled vegetation	CHAPARRAL
Ailment dispatching commanding officer? How awful!	UGH
Beginner abandons most demanding challenge	EVEREST
Carefully considering one's options, unlike Charles the Fat, say?	THINKING
Catcher of worms, as the dodo was?	early bird
Children resulting from affair?	ISSUE
Coppers accepting a new punishment	PENANCE
Daughter in wig perhaps, having dropped an E?	DRUGGED
Drugs making you a prima donna?	HEROINE
Examined closely, as swordfish might be?	GRILLED
Goliath running wild, inspiring northern hatred	LOATHING
Head office exploiting position in Barbican perhaps	housing estate
Holy man in French island uprising	ELI
Lawgiver playing part in generalissimo's escape	MOSES
Layabout upset by occasionally chaotic dancers	BOLSHOI
Lusty deb drooled horribly	red-blooded
Music-maker's poetic invocation of lover in recital?	OBOE
Possibly bitter about China supporter	befriender
Response to expulsion by university admitting not so much	bless you
Revival of addict, back with second award	RESUSCITATION
S for sovereign?	head of state
Seemed happy moving south __ but deluded	MISLED
Sinister Tory lord returning at start of year	CREEPY
Spot man in house holding bomb? On the contrary	PIMPLE
The Speaker's faction expressed their disappointment?	SIGHED
Those curious poker yarns scoundrel initially concocted	nosy parkers
Top-class teacher having a lie-in?	ABED
Unpromising areas in which son finds things to eat	DESSERTS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2016
Clues	Answers
A wicket with line wrong	AWRY
Alcoholic drink disappeared, tipped up __ around two gallons	EGGNOG
Aquatic conveyance right behind	RAFT
Christmas delivery vehicle butcher mentioned	SLEIGH
Criminal group extremely lanky: tall and thin	GANGLY
Dull floor covering	MAT
Fashionable electric vehicles backed	SMART
Gemstone, minute, received by dodgy dealer	EMERALD
Go in with can, embracing a host	ENTERTAIN
Greek character runs house	RHO
Hat on Yankee supporting aristocrat's football club	derby county
Hospital doctor from triage's moving into middle of Harrow	REGISTRAR
Modest business year	COY
Old Royal Marine probing grandma's regional dialect	NORMAN
One who might appear before court jester with cape	WITNESS
Pictures usually seen here right inside cooking area	GALLERY
Point above large church somewhere in central London	WESTMINSTER
Polish in command initially on ancient boundary	RUBICON
Pre-adolescent child, affectedly quaint, developed anger	TWEENAGER
Rat lifted rubbish beneath train mostly	TRAITOR
Reasonable to circulate learner's talent	FLAIR
Regret rugby game's ending	RUE
Section of steel finial small and delicate	ELFIN
Tall animal's error crossing one river	GIRAFFE
The Spanish bend part of arm	ELBOW
Vertical space in building Rita's altered thoroughly	STAIRWELL