The Times - Cryptic - November 5 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28127
Clues	Answers
A grossly misused reference	GLOSSARY
Abandoned female in cap	BEREFT
ABM risked being set alight	DISEMBARK
Brief, wrongly maligned at first, does well currently?	MISINFORM
British university's short challenge becoming shorter	brusquer
Broadcast medium mostly one that's a spokesperson's business?	RADII
Buried in breadfruit, chrysalides are dying	ITCH
Carriage's singular function on short trip east	STANHOPE
Drunken head of orphanage in Dickens ending in penury	BOOZY
E European going places promoting son	SLAV
Finishes off joke in music hall show not needing to be cracked?	en clair
For rambling trip, I keep something bright to wear	kipper tie
Gallery's founder going on hikes north of Albany, say	UPSTATE
Greek character upset by my lacking manners	Ungracious
Horse-drawn vehicle withdrawn?	SULKY
Kid at party left large toy	rag doll
Like bed that might collapse with abnormal weight of a lady	FOLDAWAY
Mushroom first one to go in basket?	BALLOONIST
One can be clean __ but not after work?	SWEEP
Paradise island showing up lack of volcanic activity?	AVALON
Partner hiding hairstyle until it goes dark?	all-day
Put a skewer through one's pasty	IMPALE
Seeing red top worn by girl	LIVID
Shy about pants pinching	SNAFFLING
Sort of country where shopper goes on to spend extravagantly	BLUEGRASS
Strongly desire to surrender weapon	LONGBOW
The lot of the viewer	SIGHT
The works outing arriving initially in Scottish town	ALLOA
Unfamiliar look for Welsh composer	NOVELLO
Unusual collection of shell-like blocks fell backwards	EXOTICA
Weary personnel getting stick for raising standards	FLAGSTAFF
Writer who's about to put in partial French translation	QUILL
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1999
Clues	Answers
Apple user's confused time	RUSSET
Arrives in secure room at the top	GARRET
Because Jeremy's heart is honest and true	SINCERE
Climber starting off in vertiginous Yosemite	IVY
Composer of The Planets turning out large Mass	HOST
Conspirator left trapped by Voldemort's enemy	PLOTTER
Detachment of troops mostly came back abnormally thin	EMACIATED
Difficult and tiring with right pair in Australia	ARDUOUS
Flawed Member of Parliament involved in current broadcast	IMPAIRED
Lennon music regularly banished boredom	ENNUI
Lots confining a pig in a wood	MAHOGANY
Mend a dud after ordering supplementary material	ADDENDUM
Nobody is working in north-east	NONE
One who accepts what happens with obese top celebrities?	FATALIST
Pick up king in play to take knight	LEARN
Pleasure trip to old Sumerian city	TOUR
Press piles in, dreadful for evasive character	slipperiness
Pressure from retired dandy	FOP
Record name in traditional stories from the east	ENROL
Rice dish gives us hiccups to some extent	SUSHI
Student upset choral society's leader	SCHOLAR
The Spanish family initially left by artist in pose for his picture?	self-portrait
University can set up module	UNIT
Variable is a mere part in working out	PARAMETER