The Times - Cryptic - September 21 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26836

Clues	Answers
Advocates breaking into stolen capital	HOBART
After song have rest	lie-down
Bargain — found one in smart sale at the finish!	NEGOTIATE
Bashful associate with twin likes also non-adult content?	happy as a sandboy
Bloom's partner shown round biblical site	MATURE
Book about Romeo smuggled in later for religious fellows	BRETHREN
Close second to peloton's leader	STOP
Criticised near the end by sons and daughters	SLATED
Deadly outbreak wants certain steps taken in change	PESTILENCE
Descendant of a patriarch, earliest one potentially	ISRAELITE
Driver has brawl in vehicle	CAMELEER
Especially ace dish wife put out contains meat	above all
Expresses thought endlessly across pond	STATESIDE
Female entertaining news writer	DONNE
Fining agent, one to stray with good girl	ISINGLASS

 

Clues	Answers
Flyer unusually low after drop	little owl
Honoured lady about ready to reform Republican fantasist	DAYDREAMER
In court after problems involving English population segment	age group
Inaccessible? Some doctrine — to me — rates being sent up!	REMOTE
Journey north with soldier reveals pattern	PARAGON
Member in centre shortly producing lament	ELEGY
Minister, no saint, could be temporary	INTERIM
Odd characters departing Georgian poet's country	ERIN
One peer resolved to inject unknown drug: that’s unexpected	eye-opener
See exercises for extended stride	LOPE
Syndicate share Italian smoker returned	ANTE
Those honourably discharged deserve to be housed in E1	EMERITI
Walk great distance to collect the relative	STEPFATHER
What some soldiers get without ploy to supply ancient field	EGYPTOLOGY

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 923

Clues	Answers
A lord, me? What might that become for me?	EARLDOM
Be nosy about indecent priggishness	PRUDERY
Be unsuccessful gripping line for flatfish	FLOUNDER
Beat section of totem pole	TEMPO
Carry top of the range ammunition	CARTRIDGE
Catwalk artist is large on style	MODEL
Celestial visitor has to arrive on time	COMET
Chanted song over a drink in Spain	SANGRIA
Character of German city with empty centre	ESSENCE
Character of the lower Nile	DELTA
Current score is high before end of play	TALLY
Damage article with fly getting in almond paste	MARZIPAN
Detail which should decide a contested election	RECOUNT

 

Clues	Answers
Former partner, thoughtful and dear	EXPENSIVE
Get thicker senator holding argument	STIFFEN
Hormone abuse is not ending at home	INSULIN
Lacking courage, I’m one hiding in study regularly	TIMID
Make changes to turn ale pale in colour	NEUTRAL
Old costume, a male one in Japanese art	ORIGAMI
Refuse to come down	DECLINE
River running across road makes one late	TARDY
Runs are not easy to come by	RARE
Sampan raid has destroyed invasion fleet	spanish armada
Seaside attraction ripe for redevelopment	PIER
Wall painting left on a strange backing	MURAL