The Times - Cryptic - 28402 September 22 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28402
Clues	Answers
A forceful, eccentric fan’s a rare find	four-leaf clover
Absurd assistant sweeping around old cross	PARADOXICAL
Arab once struggling across line in Olympic venue	BARCELONA
Average temperature implied	MEANT
Carry mark as symbol of clan membership	TOTEM
Clothing for Tokyo's nobility largely unused	OBI
Coastal city below Wash	LAUNDER
Continue speaking with an artist, getting final word?	SAYONARA
Detective officer, man of concern to women	DISTAFF
East European charging money for Shylock's tutors	EDUCATES
Embellish book's jacket, receiving retrospective grant	BEDECK
Emotional rent boy's base	TEARY
Gossips circulating primarily among shoe shop staff perhaps	SCANDALMONGERS
Guardian's gripping article is utterly bizarre	TUTELARY
Indecent, having name for sergeant major's barking	NUTTY
It links extremely healthy writer with hospital investment	HYPHEN
Judge leaving kid bearing crown is Walter Mitty type	ESCAPIST
Like to come round by Tuesday to see compound	ADMIXTURE
Look at me outside Yemeni port, returning at some point	one day
Noughts on end of digit in addition	TOO
Patriarch's untaxed investment about to be raised	ISAAC
Primate voiced displeasure entering bar	BABOON
Recalled verse concerning boring food for Muslim ascetics	dervishes
Region's last Neanderthal? He didn't quite make it	nearly man
Single man disheartened and glum	SOLEMN
Soft glow is potentially charming, encircling loch	CANDLELIGHT
Sorted out the law I'd broken, getting time inside	dealt with
Steal lead from church and take a close look round	CREEP
Unfinished section of minster creating hazard	CHANCE
Working on one line in poem, showing adaptability	VERSATILE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2228
Clues	Answers
A breeze from East, say, windy	EASY
A little drunk? Very little	TIDDLY
Begin new life	BEING
Character played, part of Prospero legendary	ROLE
Contract, as written in order	DECREASE
Eat bird	SWALLOW
Farm animal on a road, chicken	COWARD
Gold, say, in electrical component	ELEMENT
Head removed from serious figure	EIGHTY
Impulsive type, he had to elaborate	HOTHEAD
Item for breakfast ending in hot oven	TOAST
Measure of whisky needed before a theatrical production	DRAMA
Mix some turmeric into rice, initially	STIR
Money we returned for a little food	CASHEW
Quite nice	PRETTY
Radio set after retuning reaching minor planet	ASTEROID
Recent ad broadcast for bottle	DECANTER
Salt and wine I spilt in middle	WAISTLINE
Shockingly, it went with the last century	TWENTIETH
Shop I ran turned around	DELI
Short of money, tough at the top perhaps?	hard up
Some seed I blessed, good to eat	EDIBLE
Stick nothing cold up on top of grill	CLING
Student of wizardry, snooker player?	POTTER
Stupid upset over silly thing when day begins	MIDNIGHT
Unidentified object sat with rubbish	WHATSIT