The Times - Cryptic - July 1 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28331
Clues	Answers
An American serving Dutch painter with dexterity	AGILELY
At least three Queen's companions in Siberian city	TOMSK
Bang on about one's spruce clothes (endlessly)	PRECISE
Being near failure involves I hesitate to say punishment	MISERLINESS
Close to nine, dawn raid put off from earlier time	EDWARDIAN
Confess to have finished	own up
Court oddly leading to nick	CUT
Development stage not normally launched into	GESTATION
Deviate from route northwards	YAW
Empty fireplaces getting in the way	MEANINGLESS
Getting by with dated tool	coping saw
Gym with place to sit	PEW
Hors d'oeuvres for now, it's implied? There's nothing to follow	ANTIPASTO
Month's work's involved in unknown film	OCTOPUSSY
Moor and lake to west, by border county	LEITRIM
My job is getting harder!	SETTING
One having shot janitor finally enters bank	TRIER
One in fifteen in Society voting in Great Britain approve	SPRINGBOK
One struggling to go through: nearly all at stake	COMBATANT
One used to spell in Greece: West Ham's star Italian?	PIERO
Scoff at local boxer devouring book with massage	pub grub
Senior officials, one tight-lipped about April 1 birthday?	SECRETARIES
Senseless not to finish, chap figured?	NUMERIC
Soused with short hose	TIGHT
Studies after missing start of course	YES
Subject that's closed, still?	TOPIC
Superior rating given to second rate books	ABBOT
This report from auditor's going all the way to the top?	write-up
Traveller turns up __ sometime later an artiste	PERFORMER
Tuck into apple: a treat!	PLEAT
Worked with energy: appropriate for the type of job	white-collar
You do office jobs the old-fashioned way? Rather a blow	TEMPEST
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2169
Clues	Answers
Bird spotted in summer __ linnet?	MERLIN
Built comfortable home in street beset by poverty?	NESTED
Dad upset friend, creating shock	APPAL
Drunk and lass in casual footwear?	SANDALS
English ship with very good external polish	FINESSE
External course, beginning at the wrong end	OUTER
Illness having one fade away when crossing oceans?	DISEASE
Invader was brave enough, having lost a number	HUNDRED
Manage to get that American writing funny stories	RUNYON
Modern truths about violent weather event	THUNDERSTORM
More than one wild animal has to restrict desire	HYENAS
New soldier suffering defeat around end of war	DRAFTEE
Newspaper articles? Old pieces	OBITS
Not a major underground development	ROOTLET
Nothing found in small department store	DEPOT
One thousand coming to an isle	MAN
Pair in slow train travelling west	TWO
Prig losing head becomes unmannerly	RUDE
Put grandma up in French city	NANTES
Put on party attended by any number	DON
Rouse an ape? It is to be avoided!	ANIMATE
Row about theologian being a fraud	FIDDLE
Scots to put up with terrible hotel	THOLE
Seen in Scottish mountain, a runner?	BEAN
Severely modified trains using little energy?	ASTRINGENTLY
Smallest amount of drink __ then away for doze!	drop off
Waste product from home getting into river	URINE
You heading back to lake and grassland	LEY