The Times - Cryptic - September 13 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2221
Clues	Answers
Catch partner briefly returning	ENTRAP
Clueless, fumbling for light switch?	in the dark
Coffee yet to arrive having eaten last of breakfast	LATTE
Complete idiot ultimately has messed up a lot	TOTAL
Danger at sea: English prepare to fight!	en garde
Dirty colour	BLUE
Domain abandoned, heading for country, wandering homeless	NOMADIC
Duck or swallow?	get down
Engine component to inspire commercial perhaps?	spark plug
Figure in motion, exercising	ONE
Fixture ends in drubbing: Chelsea team sublime	GAME
Focus delivered a calmness, did you say?	CENTREPIECE
Naval officer, one found in Botswana, surprisingly	BOATSWAIN
Object passed round I figure later today	this evening
Old canine barking threateningly at first	ANCIENT
Old South American soup found here?	INCAN
Pinch leg from the back	NIP
Point raised about journalist for press etc	MEDIA
Refusal reviewed in deal	DENIAL
River mostly in Devon placed in Sussex, erroneously	EXE
Snake seen behind opening in lavatory, run!	LADDER
Something that comes with filling is near ground	SARNIE
Stick face up	GUM
Teacher has work schedule written up for patron	DONATOR
Worker on holiday, reportedly __ one's pulled up at end of journey	HANDBRAKE
Wrecked, craft turned over and ditched	TRASHED
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28394
Clues	Answers
A soldier, British, returning to secure space on ship for gun	big bertha
Article about another old clan chief	THANE
Cooked on beach without trendy dinnerware	bone china
Deceitful behaviour put bend on railway	CHICANERY
Difficult to ignore king with medal, perhaps	AWARD
Discuss possibly sleeping over on edges on terrace	DEBATE
Drew old rock band t-shirts for hippies	tie-dyes
Famous Roman port city's nickname	POMPEY
Get angry note dictated by leftist	see red
Give an address for a test sample	ORATE
Go off school during appointment	DETONATE
Great composition cut short by European	LARGE
Hope a bit of sun appears in most of country	PRAYER
International young lady drinking shot	GLOBAL
Junior's grabbing sword, descending on plants __ yikes!	jeepers creepers
Kind of experience a masseuse needs?	hands-on
Lives on spacecraft, one surrounded by water	ISLANDER
Musician's desire to cover trio occasionally	LUTIST
Observing ability to accept brigadier's last command	eyes right
One centigrade close to temperature limit for cold surface	ice cap
Persian utterance lost after battle __ that's painful	MIAOW
Present on a podcast twice? I agree!	hear hear
Reluctantly pay £25 at college	pony up
Some lingo that's freshly made?	NEOLOGISM
State of green sweater	new jersey
Tenor worried about a song's introduction __ it might be high!	TREASON
That is boxing magazine's picture	IMAGE
Translator's boy held up by river in the north-east	TYNDALE
Vessel I can put on sea, heading west	DEMIJOHN
When drunk, create alcoholic pastry	chocolate eclair