The Times - Cryptic - October 13 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26855

Clues	Answers
A winsome, inconstant, Romeo?	WOMANISER
As birds of prey wheeling round, we must hide	owl-like
Bar’s ten beer bottles	AXLE
Break promises to pay after girl becomes animated	VIVACIOUS
Celebrity couple’s split	name names
Check privy to put outside good arrangement of locks	CHIGNON
Congestion likely here: take train?	pinch point
Court poet, somewhat showy at times	WYATT
Devoured fiction, reading maybe in studio	ATELIER
Disadvantage involving lover, ultimately, got girlfriend upset also	wrong-foot
Do for weakling with salvo, finally	run to
Eva’s PhD dispatched in the form of a letter	v-shaped
Fellow quickly went about banishing the third duke	EDDIE
Grand players evidently having won by say more than a whisker	egg beaters
Group of females don’t speak for long	WISH
Hospital dared to cross the heart of the military establishment	SANDHURST

 

Clues	Answers
I have quiet words with female on the game	five-a-side
Man maybe upset woman refused tip	ISLE
Our digs fit for a king once	GORDIUS
Punished after withdrawing shelter provided	FINED
Routine trip organised, following exploit	milk run
Sailors regularly intervening in fight in city borough	BRONX
Scottish council keep us in suspense, dismissing leader	ANGUS
Secure and consequently, it’s reported, cheerful	sew up
Set down outside hotel, briefly went wandering	WRITTEN
Sore about hotel charging indeed!	ACHY
Success is on the cards, then fall	hit the deck
Sweetener and tea bag in cups	SACCHARIN
The writer’s quiet on the subject of artistic technique	IMPASTO
Unhealthy-looking girl, type to avoid exercise classes	SUETY
Went ballooning and did winter sport?	snowballed
Work with skin X-ray timed badly	TAXIDERMY

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 939

Clues	Answers
Begin introducing law that’s upset faithful	STALWART
Bird inside of skip found by waif, oddly	KIWI
Cooking nearly all tropical fruit	APRICOT
Copper on front of short polar dome	CUPOLA
De Gaulle’s language mostly about English — it turned wild	FRENETIC
Deserter’s returning as sailor	TAR
Endangered creature Greek character’s keeping at home	RHINO
Find record has finished	DISCOVER
Forgetfulness leads to our best violin being shattered	OBLIVION
Frequently in condition, organ is the latest in technology	state of the art
Ingenious key comes with operating handle	CLEVER
New reverend returning to run what ministers do	GOVERN
Part of turkey baster is broken	BREAST

 

Clues	Answers
Process of arranging gold treasury share	ORCHESTRATION
Remote camp for soldier not in mail	OUTPOST
Reportedly expensive source of venison	DEER
Reversed slump in American petrol	GAS
Rose Walker	RAMBLER
Row about slip showing dog chasing foxes	TERRIER
Severely hit British meat	LAMB
Small flat playing card?	SEVEN
Small group running riot	TRIO
Some tobacco licensing is a pain	COLIC
Source of oil quietly set aside is still looking good	well-preserved
Wear down Queen with celebratory poem	ERODE