The Times - Cryptic - February 2 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28203
Clues	Answers
Briefly queue for disinfectant	FORMALIN
Building eclipsing cars: no safe place for pedestrians	pelican crossing
Charmer leaving snakes under schoolboy's cap	SVENGALI
Couple raised in great comfort and luxury, it's suggested, become gloomy	cloud over
Go over weakness	DEFECT
Hang out first of washing in valley	DWELL
Honey, not a sausage	LOVE
Husky, shaking off lead, plunged into meat sauce	GRAVELLY
Leader sportingly beaten up, scarper	DECAMP
Let it be said that Europa turned heads	STET
Location of bridge where stake may be placed?	on the nose
Might this illustrate when left or right in a little trouble initially? I'm not sure	SWINGOMETER
Mythological entity has brought voting system into place	SPRITE
Neither one thing nor the other where the sun doesn't shine?	grey area
Not well done, what convicts do: that’s most unusual!	rare bird
Old picture indicated in A-level, by inference?	all about eve
Outrage in a writer of letters to the auditor?	APPAL
Particular Greek character breaking cover when set up	DETAIL
People finally mention jackets __ such as this one?	REEFER
Presumably picking up nothing in fishing lure with plenty of grit?	FEARLESSLY
Punched by knuckleheads, youngster declines	passes up
Recalled in feud, Russian language	URDU
Skewered dish last seen on menu in Slovakia, not entirely cooked	SOUVLAKI
Soldier's possible cue to neglect briefs	go commando
Stop queen entering Irish house	DERAIL
Suit burst	FIT
Weaken signal	FLAG
Wings clipped, bird passing through	VIA
Word: redacted one penned by fool	LOCUTION
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2062
Clues	Answers
Almost round purple fruit	PLUM
Band's kit on edge of stage	STRIPE
Burning, a hollow across river	ARDENT
Close small cabin	SHUT
Course holding permit for game	ROULETTE
Donkey in Christmas setting	ASS
Girl in game, losing heart	RUBY
Good large stove in farmhouse	GRANGE
Level pegging on board in game	SEVENS
Novice in religious order, one they ordered to keep quiet	NEOPHYTE
One thought unlikely to win, away team against second in group	OUTSIDER
Pawn fashionable brooch	PIN
Piece of music from show, Oscar's first	CONCERTO
Poem from English stage, 'Journey's End'	ELEGY
Record label millions love, tenor's first to admit	MOTOWN
Rework text of Nesbit, perhaps unfinished	EDIT
Rubbish written about husband's party	THRASH
Ruin United Nations function	UNDO
Runs over to help attack	RAID
Seafood affected one after seconds	SCAMPI
Shrewd moving statue	ASTUTE
Space traveller's damaged radio set	ASTEROID
Strict with new pointer	NARROW
That woman behind us is a theatre attendant	USHER
Threatening nun outside home	SINISTER
Wife, maybe, requires support, heading off	SPOUSE