The Times - Cryptic - December 30 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28174
Clues	Answers
A riddle with no conclusion? Pull the other one!	as if
Acting like a hound, seeking romance round female	WOOFING
African native bloomer on the banks of one river	GIRAFFE
Bear child, mother's fifth	TOTE
Cardinal, say, is back holding a letter-opener	DEAR
Clad like Elizabethan gent seizing uniform, the company's own	in-house
Current character in Greece, mostly affable Greek princess	IPHIGENIA
Different water temperatures crossed by returning river boat	YACHT
Endless words to acclaim a hollow rockery's little flower	TRIBUTARY
French construction line pocketing one juicy cut	CHATEAUBRIAND
I expect complaint: university with old teacher's regressing	no doubt
It means getting more bread that’s flatter, not soft	RAISE
Jazzy riffs absorbing to guitar person just getting a record?	first offender
Kid catching punch in the gut in English town	SWINDON
Like top execs, canned following dishonesty	high-flying
One smashing image representing lions and cat without company	ICONOCLAST
Papers about arrangement for sitar or recorder	DIARIST
Printer's extremely testy stare maintaining order	TYPEWRITER
Queen caught by group of stars and hit artist	CLEOPATRA
Rope and anchorage at sea for expert there	OCEANOGRAPHER
Russian girl after pinching a Republican's bottom	NADIR
Tenet of millenarianism will have faded, for example	future perfect
Thought about Hattie's exterior, with a proudly displayed bust	FIGUREHEAD
Unpredictable scoundrel housed in Morecambe?	ERRATIC
Variety star wanting covers for piece of music	ARIETTA
We're told the fellow's going to part of Oxford?	HEEL
What I might be in series from television, in theory	NINTH
Word just in recent science fiction hit	NEWSFLASH
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2038
Clues	Answers
A possible problem for some coming up?	BENDS
African islander organised galas in spring month	MALAGASY
Alcoholic drink for cast	SLING
Charge made by artist swinging round in row	TARIFF
Convict finally escaped, heading north in Netherlands town	DELFT
Daughter is cleaned and combed __ and dumped!	DISCARDED
Equipment essential for skittles	KIT
Fuss made by Dorothy about nothing	to-do
Get bagatelle, having shifted item of furniture	gateleg table
King comes to a place no longer able to function	KAPUT
Like an inscribed trophy buried in the churchyard?	ENGRAVED
Mistake? Hope, perhaps, to conceal nothing	BOOB
Necessary qualities of arts graduate leading Cambridge college	MAKINGS
Old chum in Paris collects apparatus for artistic hobby	ORIGAMI
On a peninsula in a very cold place with no hint of sun	IBERIAN
Overweight leader is an idiot	FATHEAD
Really enjoy drink at Oxford?	lap up
Rescue operation with lake drained to get beast	SAVAGE
Rush made by operator not getting on	SURGE
Russian city known in romantic old verse, originally	KIROV
Seller is worker involved in various crimes with little hesitation	merchandiser
Senior man, fellow to entertain you in old-fashioned way	DOYEN
Showing facial expression of wise person in short video	Visaged
Sleep in something soft and fluffy	NAP
Social with gin being poured out for philosophers	LOGICIANS
Support one on the same side without breaking the law	LEGALLY