The Times - Cryptic - September 21 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28401
Clues	Answers
Ancient Greek bridge crossing a rivulet's banks	SPARTAN
Aristocrats expected by society to embrace the mating game	DUCHESSES
Blustering fellow crossing street	GUSTY
Flower, note, stemmed?	tea rose
Having acquired Queen's Head, tear up loose flooring	PARQUET
IT end working with MS Outlook	MINDSET
It's perhaps key for investment in bank?	legal tender
Land of Hope … It's inspired by Elgar's last muse	RURITANIA
Money raised during radio broadcast	BREAD
Move pages back after a sneak preview	APPETISER
Nearly discard British pound	THROB
One posted to Yemeni port, briefly possessing fantastic des res	ADDRESSEE
Play about a duke's spaniel	TOADY
Political parties go head to head on golf channel?	BILLABONG
Predictable pattern in regular letters from Proust	RUT
Rearing dog on pastries and fish	GUPPIES
Roasted meat sampled without starter	LAMBASTED
Run for so long	BYE
State of half optimism	POSIT
Step fathers	PAS
Tenth time he's following it up	TITHE
The island of Awoka	OKINAWA
Theme from middle of Vertigo, a Hitchcock film	TROPE
This forgot it __ an iceberg amidships!	TITANIC
Time I had to accept I'm retiring	TIMID
Transparent film's temperature in turbulent Lake Constance	contact lens
Turning a little subdued, drinking a wine is what's wanted	DESIDERATUM
Vehicle that may confound or trap Al C?	patrol car
Voice resistance, puncturing reputation as huge wet blanket?	ALTOSTRATUS
What can make a piercing cry with no head?	AWL
What's brother's haircut? Not flipping certain!	TONSURE
Where tennis players should be focused and alert	on the ball
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2227
Clues	Answers
After seconds, a youth leaves	SALAD
Angry male sheep	het up
Artist is a noodler, sadly	LEONARDO
Bananas are able to develop	ELABORATE
Brilliant, mostly sumptuous material	FABRIC
Dirty, having cap removed and treated with grease	OILED
Famous chemist releasing book for Christmas	NOEL
Fly, carrying new tracking apparatus	SONAR
How stupid of me to return this builder's equipment	HOD
Humiliated adolescent initially remains in bed	ABASHED
Kebab dish finished with last bit of coriander	DONER
Let everybody down, having no limits	ALLOW
Messy site cleaned to accommodate small shop	DELICATESSEN
Mischievous and somewhat self-involved	ELFIN
Move unsteadily after beginning to drink more rum	DODDER
Ocean wind swirling around a large eastern Pacific region	New Caledonia
One making demands of retired player?	EXACTOR
One reshaped in end part of the foot	TOENAIL
Outstanding university in Delaware	DUE
PA, on reflection sharp, given a job	APPOINTED
Point of view __ it may be right!	ANGLE
Sailors getting in the booze	ABSINTHE
Soldier put inflatable boat in river	DRAFTEE
Some loathsome manager sent round note	MEMO
Suitable extra task for a delivery driver?	FITTING
Toast and two-thirds of Stilton, perhaps with port	CHEERIO