The Times - Cryptic - August 1 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28357
Clues	Answers
Account sort code with money staked externally	ANECDOTE
Ancient disheartened by present day possibly is prepared	at the ready
Bells ring only up to noon during visit	CARILLON
Blue movie of Hitchcock's right to go after terror	IMPROPER
Charmed in brief period before spring	SPELLBOUND
Cordial but not popular? One may blow up	GRENADE
Cryptic indication of Sally or Jack's rank	second mate
Deny one plugs hit record at first	DISCLAIM
Executive's helper to keep teasing model	PARAGON
Explanations of say French art welcomed by lovers once	EXEGESES
Fake sign of unpaid bill in English club	SPURIOUS
Favourable result __ reverse of home leg in capital city	WINNIPEG
Hostility from states no one's backing	AVERSION
How amazing to be welcomed by host one meets	stone me
How one may serve in Germany and with marines after a long time	UNDERARM
In Paris, my sister picked up a rubber	MASSEUR
Returned garments displaying blemish	SPOT
Ship moving slowly out of lake	ARGO
Showing appreciation of a quantity of ashes?	GRATEFUL
Soldiers take steps to secure new weaponry	ORDNANCE
Something elementary in Reagan campaign slogan?	ELECTRON
Tail pinned to cuckoo	end point
The very bright edges of earring and garish extra decorations	EGGHEADS
Truant's old boring tool cases	AWOL
Unemployed compiler given hand-out, short of nothing	IDLE
United fans excited by rising score in tie? Quite the opposite!	UNFASTEN
Untidy person content to leave India for European country	SLOVENIA
When one may get a nasty shock?	bad hair day
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2190
Clues	Answers
"Two portions of meat __ and be quick about it!"	chop-chop
Accepted in Jodhpur, serving ship's officer	PURSER
After struggle, woman raised capital in Europe	VIENNA
Almost set out to be a celebrity	STAR
American journalist subjected to exploitation	USED
Army poet's sleeveless jacket	TABARD
Blue pigment provided by fellow Lithuanian, perhaps	COBALT
Change item in variety show	TURN
Creature identified by duke on small low-lying island	DONKEY
Equable English archdeacon	EVEN
Farmer digesting extremes of horror in crime novel	THRILLER
Forceful surgeon engaging macho types	VEHEMENT
Game played by good university teacher	GURU
Genuine-sounding angler's device	REEL
Instance of arsenic being brought into church	CASE
No longer virginal, but not pursued, we hear	UNCHASTE
One in pursuit of spirit to follow beer, perhaps	CHASER
Painstaking, albeit lacking in refinement	THOROUGH
Pair entertaining great fondness for shore bird	PLOVER
Pal I shot mistakenly __ and where he ended up?	HOSPITAL
Silver-haired poet mentioned in speech	GREY
Size of area in top conurbation	CAPACITY
Songbird principally nesting under material on roof	NUTHATCH
Take a lot of time to become socially accepted?	BELONG