The Times - Cryptic - August 17 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28371
Clues	Answers
A city rent is ridiculous? Sure thing	CERTAINTY
A lot of effort to get a new advertising feature	SLOGAN
Allow story about Conservative? Breaking news carrying no weight	LICENSE
Alpine lake falling short __ unknown quantity needed for stability	CONSTANCY
Arab country offloading Middle East currency	YEN
Bill almost crazy to return	TAB
Bloke needing microphone repair after change of heart	MICHAEL
Boy lied? Not good	SON
Business information in current year	AGENCY
Cheat getting round a new rule	CANON
Everybody in staff raised money	DOLLAR
Fashion accessory obtained out of South American city	BOA
First degree thus fundamental	BASIC
Hopefully learning many are involved in this legal matter	class action
Idle cop somehow to turn back his support?	police dog
Imaginative architectural feature in mind __ millions expended	INSPIRED
Implausibly fast mover on yacht at sea	TACHYON
Inexpert fellow invested in gold? Heading for ruin	AMATEUR
Instruments, black in appearance mostly	GUITARS
Lithium company beset by wrong element	SILICON
Me, I will participate in most of opportunity to get fitter?	MECHANIC
Military accessory at work, requiring billions invested	BUSBY
Nothing blocks machine, all wrecked, attaining the dumps	MELANCHOLIA
Old relative was not happy about rising extravagance	GRANDEUR
Questions accessories needed for ballet?	PUMPS
Seek new skill? Picked up skill, staying in control	RETRAIN
Self-evident Times article turned up with peculiar expressions I'd ignored	AXIOMATIC
Study sounds of birds avoiding northern part of Europe	SCANDINAVIA
Test offered by sequence in exposed cards?	dummy run
Visit with estate agent, perhaps, getting invitation to check next option?	see over
Who's got ready to study?	NUMISMATIST
Wrong answer __ subsequently repeated in second test	ASTRAY
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2202
Clues	Answers
After a time, crewman is conveniently close	at hand
After shortening, deliver best part of speech	VERB
Always set out for peak	EVEREST
Anticipate everyone being behind wooded area	FORESTALL
As an insignificant person, hard to become PM	ASQUITH
Calm time of day	EVEN
Do our family make cloth?	DOESKIN
Does it give dairy farmer easy profits?	cash cow
Giving place and time immediately	there and then
Half a constellation appears pale blue	AQUA
I clean myself, do you hear? Nonsense!	EYEWASH
I urge man to cultivate a pelargonium	GERANIUM
Jog along: revolutionary?	TROT
Little, almost vile, destructive beetle	WEEVIL
Offensive to keep relative in view	VISIBLE
One big book on record as a typical example	EPITOME
One fielding six balls, in this sweater?	SLIPOVER
Partner shows fever after cello playing	COLLEAGUE
Plain wicked, swallowing litres	BALD
Shortly notice a piece of ammunition that is found on the beach	SEASHELL
Start to cut piece of wood, that's around a foot?	CLOG
To keep small, company dismisses Ukrainians, perhaps	COSSACKS
Town decrees filth must be recycled	CHESTERFIELD
Upsetting Dan and Mary Carter	DRAYMAN