The Times - Cryptic - October 14 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2244
Clues	Answers
Blake, maybe, is going to one in the morning	WILLIAM
Break down in lane, say, when travelling around	ANALYSE
British leading French eleven getting third prize	BRONZE
Catcall, with fuss in field	MEADOW
Catches 150 snakes	CLASPS
Enthusiastic about, maybe, Geordie’s chants	INTONES
Fantastic lionesses, silent	NOISELESS
Formally correct old part of duet	PRIMO
Girl not all in Tbilisi do rate	ISIDORA
Hymns, perhaps: no good in plea for help	SONGS
Intelligent leader of British Conservatives?	BRIGHT
Like fibre of male politician confronting Yankee	hempy
Makeshift bookmark found in party clothes	DOGEAR
New tavern is full of European idiots	NINNIES
Pithy saying upset an old Turkish person	OTTOMAN
Prone to dishonesty?	LYING
Range that is large for a dog	SPANIEL
Respected leader imposing conditions on island	STATESMAN
Sacred music and, I would add, charity	PSALMS
Stole letters from Walsh, cunningly	SHAWL
Stolen, as bank card may be?	SWIPED
Trap poor Ann’s caught in before	ENSNARE
Trouble in yard upset charwoman	DAILY
Type of film show cinema is fitting in initially?	sci-fi
Vibrant, somewhat amazing youngster	ZINGY
Writhe, with convulsions, becoming increasingly pale	WHITER
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28421
Clues	Answers
Academician getting measure of wit around Asian land	IRAQ
Approve recording 50 in random sporting format	stroke play
Australian bird's hangover symptom?	THICKHEAD
Believer in Arizona sort that needs conversion	ZOROASTRIAN
Branching chart complete: right to divide dog and sheep	dendrogram
Brownish-orange peels from the tikka covering grated carrot	TERRACOTTA
Cold-blooded creature clever duke abandoned	EFT
Cook entertains news boss and European publisher	BAEDEKER
Edges to lightly cover with a stretchy fabric	LYCRA
Everyone in Rome crowds quartet there: men who'd take it all in?	OMNIVORES
Fleet applying pressure in attack	RAPID
Horse adopted by Pathan represented fiery mixture	NAPHTHA
Jack at hostelry serves spirits	JINN
Line the writer grasps when climbing tree	ELM
Long drink in beer garden?	yard of ale
Love given to cleaner reforming strict policy	zero tolerance
Mature males on staff in film showing organisational incompetence	MISMANAGEMENT
Old German wants no second extension to cell	AXON
OS showing circuitous routes?	ROUNDS
Painter Foster's spilled a thinner on the ground	RARER
Paraphrases vignette — proper text is regularly ignored	INTERPRETS
Seeing red in abattoir at Edgware	IRATE
Speed up Bletchley Park genius, providing support	NURTURING
Stole hit repeatedly broadcast	WRAP
The wine in Provence is sent back? Complain tearfully	SNIVEL
Unable to catch fast doe running without delay inside	deaf as a post
Unimaginative drunk left after considerable time	LITERAL
Wasteful gourmand round bar with beer in short measure	PRODIGAL