The Times - Cryptic - October 27 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
A fruitless mission, rum do for Arsenal	a fools errand
A need for diplomat to accommodate firm over work?	TOCCATA
Censure for each going up top	REPROOF
Colourless individual not taking sides	NEUTRAL
Continuous murmur from Hard Right splitting corporation	THRUM
Course gone round by sovereign was full of cracks?	QUIPPED
Current cuts are enough to fund strike	run into
Deserter acts deviously to reveal them, perhaps	trade secrets
Destructive, and a pain, holding a night flier back	CATABOLIC
Detective ruled lines for notes concerning women	DISTAFF
Doctor's left university for right case	CARTRIDGE
Famous cleric by preference keeping close to bishop	SPOONER
Follow after troops rush to advance	rat race
Harrowing account dogging Republican ruler	RACKING

 

Clues	Answers
Headgear displayed by panto queen	TOQUE
Ingenuous old bird, female, given coat	open-faced
Is competent professional perhaps in audition to provide cosmetic surgery?	nose job
Locum happy nursing in India, say	SUBCONTINENT
On reduced allowance, writer's become more focused	SHARPEN
Philosopher arousing others' ire	THEORISER
Primate's teaching is used for English	LORIS
Saves signals from sappers?	RESCUES
See trouble with British artist fronting game show?	BRAVADO
Settle for one female model returning inside	SATISFY
Software providing instruction for transport police?	search engine
State leaders to support overseas sanction	say-so
Unnaturally pale men put on list for service	EMPANEL
Whale led by pack round island	MAJORCA

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 949

Clues	Answers
Aussie friend has clothes, etc, left out	COBBER
Brief description that is needed to identify coins	SPECIE
Chemical surprisingly inert	NITRE
Communication taking a log time after muddle	MESSAGE
Competition in which there should be a fair winner	beauty contest
Declare 1950s-style youth should be turned away	AVERTED
Do better than one notorious gangster	CAPONE
Ecclesiastical female’s cases done differently	DEACONESS
Fancy screen that swings round in some churches	CENSER
Group's manager’s records, note, at home	EPSTEIN
Live as president putting some characters off	RESIDE
Money for penning article showing remorse	PENANCE

 

Clues	Answers
Native American daughter making statement of faith	CREED
Northern city puts up, for election, furniture to sit in	CHESTERFIELDS
Performer in Rwandan ceremony	DANCER
Quietly brought up and given approval	PRAISED
Regions in South Africa with time turned around	AREAS
Rose, maybe — female less exalted	FLOWER
Stare in wonder after a religious feast	AGAPE
The bottom drain is broken	NADIR
To obtain by coercion is no longer illegal act	EXTORT
Tolerate a bird	SWALLOW
Trick by erstwhile yesman?	CONFORMER
Whiskey producer's equipment is quiet	STILL