The Times - Cryptic - August 23 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28376
Clues	Answers
A carrier on building site cuts short time in plant	ASPHODEL
A father secures power to rise to a great height	ASPIRE
A foreign action keeps police in two minds	UNDECIDED
Brown belt strains here and there	TAN
Colourful English Times involved in hearing	EXOTIC
County charity's first to go broke	down-and-out
English sides swallowing one team's panacea	ELIXIR
Fit one wool supplier up, touring classy island	MAURITIUS
Gambling centre where pound note's gone west	RENO
Green militant with energy to bully a bishop downing port	eco-warrior
Horrible old chest holding new debtor's notes	OBNOXIOUS
Knight's half of republic's capital	DUB
Look round a course? Not in this!	pea-souper
Need to leave almost leaderless business	EXIGENCY
Outstanding male feature's very soft in water	adams apple
Part of city starts to slag off Home Office	SOHO
Part of the world suggesting it's Anglo-Saxon?	middle east
Perfect state of Irish victor housed by granny	NIRVANA
Possibly infinite series of language lessons	AGELESS
Pressure monk to preserve small part of vessel's contents	PLASMA
Regret hosting thousands on king's vessel	RUMMER
Scholars of 50 briefly repeating themselves? Not on!	LITERATI
Sends rude novel __ with such illustrations?	UNDRESSED
Soak with Asian money the result of error in court?	RETRIAL
Soppy book about island on line	EMOTIONAL
Source of crude painting in good health	oil well
Staged revolutionary Hamlet, say, and suchlike inside	ENACTED
Superior unions collectively back strike	UPPERCUT
University in lead is first in Hungary to pen large issue	PUBLISH
Want costly article reduced	DEARTH
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2206
Clues	Answers
Artist hosting one West Indian festival	DIWALI
Be concerned about Liberal bore	CALIBRE
Blunders and fears losing face	ERRORS
Catch business associate mostly lying around	ENTRAP
Church carols regularly creating confusion	CHAOS
Cross, somewhat tetchy bridegroom	HYBRID
Damage a car travelling round island country	costa rica
Doctor taking a break	GAP
Dried fruit is placed in water	RAISIN
Even so, it's somehow extremely logical	STILL
Hot ring broke at the front part of cooker	HOB
Insect worn out eating top of gnarly plant	stag beetle
Japanese combatant seen in jazzy trousers	NINJA
Like 007's work, until SPECTRE crumbled	top-secret
Log touching piece of rope?	RECORD
Macerate bananas for afternoon treat?	cream tea
Material dug up	DENIM
New dating site got going	INSTIGATED
Person tending to accept European job	CAREER
Power held by very severe overseas correspondent	pen pal
Pressure injected in to overhaul weapon	TORPEDO
Remain behind everybody else	LAST
Run one marathon, perhaps	RACE
Visualisation of data from each trip out	pie chart