The Times - Cryptic - April 1 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - T+A188es Cryptic No 28253
Clues	Answers
Adult follows mounted troops moving part of generator	ARMATURE
Aforementioned copper since retired	SAID
As nice as Ritz's top cocktail	ARSENIC
At end of dinner for one, throw out another sprout	REGROWTH
Be like a son avoiding mass again	RESEMBLE
Clothing covering Dougal's rear?	KILT
Country hosts with good conversation	CHINWAG
Current motorway schedule easily followed?	IMITABLE
Drunk during social, heading off with guile	ARTFULLY
English therefore brought round squash drink machine	ESPRESSO
Fragrant wild flower with berries wet, bedraggled	SWEETBRIER
Hastily shift marsh plant	RUSH
Licence not paid for by government, we're told	free rein
Old nationalist boycotts strike, run internally	BLACKSHIRT
Overburdened boat crew outwardly united	WEIGHTED
Picked up in the field, finally being rested	GLEANED
Place in office on public view lately?	INSTATE
Queen bearing grand letters exits	EGRESSES
Ready to support service for card users	CASHBACK
Regularly reuse, in gym, a training shoe	ESPADRILLE
Scriptures record one saint taking off shortly	EPISTLES
Staff officer, pushy, busy with collaring squadron leader	brass hat
Stage dance sequence	STEP
Standard document variously biased towards graduate	pro forma
Start of Lennon's Imagine reworked, conveying modern message	EMAILING
Student, once being briefly with nothing to eat, being forgotten	OBLIVION
The Spanish invested in wine for drinks cabinet.	CELLARET
Travelling like men and woman from Battersea, maybe	KENNELMAID
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2104
Clues	Answers
A case of champagne? Great!	ACE
A dish __ such as curry?	hot stuff
Boat sure to be wrecked __ by this person?	SABOTEUR
Business with a blonde, we hear	AFFAIR
Christmas lunch? It didn't go down too well	TURKEY
Clear company man getting monthly payment	COHERENT
Councillor stupidly alarmed? Not at first	ALDERMAN
Cunning scheme making you gasp	WHEEZE
Depict duke fighting back	DRAW
Doled out by Royal Engineers, or kept back?	RESERVED
Excite female anger	FIRE
Exercises, so ready for trip to Cuba?	PESO
Fly around Pole? That's a joke	JEST
Handle force in Panama perhaps	HAFT
Honour half-cut Venetian judge	VENERATE
Idiotic order to a chap facing bull	TOREADOR
In recession, LA rents rise rapidly	SPIRAL
Join American in Florence on vacation	FUSE
Long to finish early in 2022 perhaps	YEAR
Nervously edge near deserter	RENEGADE
Reportedly gave birth to a wild creature	BOAR
Ron returning with girl to identify place of D-Day landings	NORMANDY
Safe place for Hardy heroine to cross river	FORTRESS
Snooty Isabella did appear in part	la-di-da
Spike article about king	PIERCE
What about grabbing old garden tool?	HOE