The Times - Cryptic - October 11 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2241
Clues	Answers
Action movie I'd heard is dreadful	die hard
Airman bombing harbour	MARINA
Badly built rental vehicle that's rapid	bullet train
Basis for soup __ last of celery with plenty of beef?	STOCKY
Beginning of joke to do with looking humorous?	JOCULAR
Black plane	JET
Briefly look good with weapon	GLANCE
Broken sculpture	BUST
Comedian aboard cart	WAGON
Creature's vulgar cry picked up	blue whale
Grabbed by green ogre in film, I scream	SHRIEK
Hand over some choice delicacies	CEDE
Herb produced by your old-fashioned setter	THYME
Martial art __ it's surrounded by magical charm	JUJITSU
Number observed outside party, perhaps	SEVENTEEN
Obtain parking place outside theatre finally	DERIVE
Prisoner's trick	CON
Rumba dancing in part of Asia, once	BURMA
Run amok and barge into errand boy	RAMPAGE
Sensory organ captures one sound	NOISE
Set free? That's rotten!	PUTRID
Smelly stuff next to one revolting prison	DUNGEON
Taped us changing latest news reports	UPDATES
Think about West Country heroine	wonder woman
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28418
Clues	Answers
Bamboo vessel, not round	CANE
Bat defensively, a single wicket in stand	STONEWALL
Cherish processed English cheese	CHESHIRE
Desire to do mischief in country church	MALICE
Dress caught on a black taxi	MINICAB
Excitedly telling niece news	INTELLIGENCE
Explosive ingredient some disconcertingly brought round	NITRE
Fantastic country is fine, with a lake	FAERIE
Go without food, finding a trace of mercury in salmon?	FAMISH
I invested in horse over win	GAIN
Ice to keep fresh without power	RESERVE
Idly read lines in bed, mostly	BROWSE
Lighter finished as fluid escaped	SPILLOVER
Note Mickey almost is universally recognised	FAMOUS
Obstruct idiot grabbing copper in war-torn city	DAMASCUS
Parasite left on tree, destroying billions	LEECH
Perfume the French sell old queen	LAVENDER
Plain short stage show's got excess of parts	overproduction
Plots with skill turned over for plant used for stuffing	BEDSTRAW
Pub noise? This can carry	BARROW
Put mares out towards spring. perhaps	UPSTREAM
Running into maltreated ragamuffin	TATTERDEMALION
Scientist came across a lot of magnetism with substance	METALLURGIST
Standard form of gene mostly for twin	PARALLEL
State of fruit ends in great wastage	SULTANATE
Time to manage revolutionary concerning weapon	TRUNCHEON
Tree, large, that is beside river	OSIER
Very much into morning working, then golf	AMONG