The Times - Cryptic - October 20 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26861

Clues	Answers
Balanced stock book getting put away	STABLE
Biblical book, unknown in time	EZRA
Capital college	st johns
Categorise abstract poetry in abridged guide	STEREOTYPE
Commentator’s wrongly felt for all the runners	FIELD
Conservative puts away records	clocks up
Drink no longer available in canteens—it changed	instant coffee
Edited liberal article about Fonteyn, perhaps	BALLERINA
Expecting to double power for making transatlantic flight?	HOPPING
Fruit tree separated from fruit	APPLE
Grass with post-crime police activity	WHEAT
Heroine of German agreement accommodating nothing Franco ordered	joan of arc
Keep interrupting row about updated component	RETROFIT
Large well-known store ruined immediately	like a shot
Local name for land I found in small strip	SVERIGE

 

Clues	Answers
Massive stop after start is annulled	VAST
Memorable dog having left for second	red-letter
Minister yet again to hold back	RESERVE
Mistake rued, partly retracted in bingo?	EUREKA
Move first to last in middle ground	EARTH
One way to expand MP’s permit	EMPOWER
Openly belittle OCD advice to quilt maker?	cut down to size
Overturning beer ban, is a French writer	RABELAIS
Pet survey cut short by obligation	SWEETIE
Pitch isn't black when it's this	FLOODLIT
Steadfast astronaut losing limb	STRONG
Tart in live performance initially reversing vehicle	PEDICAB
The largest bird withers inwardly	TIDIEST
Trapped in yard, you say?	CAUGHT
What could spawn new desires, for example	GREEDINESS

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 944

Clues	Answers
Account's dazzling pure wit	write-up
Challenge wrongdoer put on trial	CONTEST
Cheer leaders of rubbish team, accepting goalless draw?	ROOT
Company takes on good employee who'll play small part	COG
Empty shore near a stretch of water	SEA
Fresh information about sappers	GREEN
Fuel that is partly undervalued	DERV
Heading off, pass town in Hampshire	ANDOVER
Homeless old lady sheltering in barrel	VAGRANT
Huge numbers of weapons from Cornwall and Devon?	SWARMS
I will leave night clothes near entrance to room for someone staying	LINGERER
Line restraining stray dog	TERRIER

 

Clues	Answers
Newspaper article following gold mining's end?	ORGAN
No 1 sign diet at fault?	INDIGESTION
Person photographing crocodile?	SNAPPER
Preserve trunk road around Caribbean island	JAMAICA
Reveal terrible pain is constant	EVERLASTING
Roadie usually having the last word	ADIEU
See a drum beaten with show of restraint	MEASURED
Stick offer in as expected, initially	ABIDE
Strong wind and cloud over river and a lake	MISTRAL
Suppose one will receive letter from Athens	OPINE
Trap feline near church	CATCH
Vegetable dish and ham too, served regularly	POTATO