The Times - Cryptic - October 10 2017 Crosswords Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26852

Clues	Answers
After fare's cut by pound, drunk’s brightened up	FLOODLIT
Bachelor's taken off woman's top, the cad!	LOUSE
Bloomers live to the west around desert	ERRATA
Commute time halved through big road opening	MITIGATE
Crouch down, about to pick up frame on US train	COWCATCHER
Drink up to get a quid	PLUG
European football team calling for half-time?	INTERMISSION
Foreign land mass? Clay's beneath it	MALI
Government building's aide getting wine out to chill	patent office
Impassioned bird call	STIRRING
In France, once, change a strongly acidic element in brass	SOUSAPHONE
Iron-clad shell of uranium hit the roof	FUME
It's almost time when I should retire	NIGHT
Legal man, then, with legal men	SOLICITOR

 

Clues	Answers
Like an egg base for taco not binding	OVOID
Lordly houses very unaffected	IMPERVIOUS
Maybe hear terror is what gives you a shock	hair restorer
One figure touring river or part of canal?	INTESTINE
Overturned more than one schoolboy error	slip-up
People generally not forgiving insolence in former warzone	western front
Pet circles round track in some fine attire	coat-tail
Replaced top cops and media bosses	SUPERSEDED
Rot from Conservative stars	CARIES
Something easy, nursing doctor before a stroke	dog paddle
Stored in silo, a type of cereal	OATY
Tax returns holding up a grant	ALLOT
Where bird may be seen running and tripping?	on high
Win over queen's follower	SUCCESSOR

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 936

Clues	Answers
A paper goes into sin in clergy house	VICARAGE
Allow each hand to be trimmed	PERMIT
Arrive in numbers at home after some bread	roll in
Attention given to Liberal peer	EARL
Be in charge of old Marine unit	COMMANDO
Ceremony — religious education covers it	RITE
Choice of the Spanish division to depose leader	ELECTION
Country harvest, some would say	GHANA
Emperor a usurper, it’s said	CAESAR
Great numbers of dogs beheaded	OODLES
Horrified as little boy biting into fruit died	APPALLED
Horse galloped round circle	ROAN
It wins a point, and should win a trick	ACE

 

Clues	Answers
Journey and finally meet French composer	TRAVEL
Manage to make haste	RUN
Nipper moved prince	PINCER
Partly yellow Indian snake	WIND
Pictured as tense	DRAWN
Poke right inside seedcase	PROD
Present easily damaged	TENDER
So vain in organised trespass	INVASION
Strong coating — some of the name lost	ENAMEL
Suddenly stop a s-siesta?	ARREST
To finish, I have a salad plant	ENDIVE
Understanding endless complaint	GRIP
What’s in tobacco is pleasant: round container brought in	NICOTINE