The Times - Cryptic - February 28 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28225
Clues	Answers
Actor with speech not having caught handover	EXTRADITION
After drink, read novel that's flimsy fiction?	CHARADE
Artwork flipping rubbish, which may be a minus	OPERATOR
Band's tour plugging covers of single	STRIPE
Bold female lugs around large, empty ewers	FEARLESS
Cat's nine lives ultimately running non-stop	INCESSANT
Clare's town losing time in activity in court	ENNIS
Compose music for the monastery, showing taste	PENCHANT
Conservative member not happy making U-turn	CLIMBDOWN
Crack about taking in queen's minder	CHAPERON
Degenerate bum stealing pounds	BACKSLIDE
Deny wife gets released from prison once	NEGATE
Edgar gutted by cryptic containing nothing designed to be easy	ERGONOMIC
Fellow feeling California escapes disaster	AMITY
Guilty-seeming way to fall foul of the RSPCA?	HANGDOG
Half of news two journalists wanted	NEEDED
Lack of feeling shown by Richardson?	hard-heartedness
One trembles, sent without cover after killer	ASPEN
Passing one chap pinning hairstyle with fancy net	IMPERMANENT
Pilgrim's greeting, welcoming a couple of judges	HAJJI
Preserve agreement to put in German marks	JAM
Public official dressing king	MAYOR
Recruits being regularly on the field of combat once	ENLISTS
Something corny cut by Irish writer, one from Dublin or Antrim?	EASTERNER
Source of distress overwhelming woman's spirit	BANSHEE
To a militarist, an awful approach to government	TOTALITARIANISM
Train, or alternative to it?	COACH
Where Americans go around noon	CAN
Where criminals eat is top drawer?	CONSTABLE
Woman I see hiding gun	AGATHA
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2080
Clues	Answers
A Greek character joins blokes in scheduled recreation	AMUSEMENT
Church worker in Ireland chilled drink	ice beer
City chief recalled legendary Rovers footballer, American	MAYOR
Conversation starts to echo around Una's French country house	CHATEAU
Cool weapon for group of admirers	fan club
Damage new hat on long-distance race	MARATHON
Dog equipment in outskirts of arena	AKITA
Dull English or US coin	DIME
Father and son rage	SIRE
Fraud unknown on south-west island	SWIZ
German city engineer's inner nature	ESSENCE
Gracious female, upper-class, somewhere in the Ionian Islands	CORFU
In New York, university cream broadcast skill in maths	NUMERACY
Language Sean misused in jest	JAPANESE
Lie in hospital, exhausted	TALE
Live empty life in same Yorkshire town	BEVERLEY
Nocturnal tree-dwelling lemur half visible, certainly	AYE
Record old companion's age	EPOCH
Resign from actor's union without case	QUIT
Romantic musician, seconds before, excited Andre	SERENADER
Someone who looks old alongside British waiter	OBSERVER
Stop by English river last	ENDURE
Untidy person's thorough wash mostly very loud	SCRUFF
Visit Ely perhaps	SEE
Want Geordie to meet newsman	NEED
Wine Rob tipped over __ 'oops' heard	BORDEAUX