The Times - Cryptic - November 2 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26872

Clues	Answers
...makes up 9, ready to use	at ones elbow
A useless distribution of writing material in the main	open sea
Aftermath of heavy rain, perhaps, the price for staying at Glastonbury?	TORRENT
Appropriate interest	BAG
Being socially aware, maybe, is not ending very well	RIGHTO
Consecutive letters penned by a Turk edited a tiny bit	top quark
Firing at Wellington’s command?	order of the boot
Flipping game is irrational: take heed, everyone!	PINBALL
Future army commander involved in heavy work	to come
Gathered locks point in wrong direction	BUN
Grass moor set aside for racecourse	haydock park
Hers are virtual card tricks?	practical joker
Holds poles, put in ground further up	INTERNS
Hot dish, low calorie, that’s hard and brittle	BAKELITE

 

Clues	Answers
In which broken carpal sets, with time?	plaster cast
Invite to tango perhaps with no introduction, suspiciously	ASKANCE
Irish town associated with mini-computer game	table tennis
Last item on agenda, to block pruning of very small tree	BAOBAB
Most of hog, a large hog, on skewer: one’s tucked in smartly!	hospital corner
Running in Malta’s PM? Hardly!	MATINAL
Send mad Swedish girl on a French horse	UNHINGE
Sibling out with daughter in Theatreland	BROADWAY
Stole odd pieces from 20 ..	BOA
Stuff you need before filling old tank	OVEREAT
Tea dance with no matching pairs	CHA
To hit high notes stop humming	STINKY
Track athlete, having left for a run, a little bit shattered?	SPLINTER
Volatile electors a worry for China	royal worcester

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 953

Clues	Answers
A boring thing, looking back, for Irish police	GARDA
A newspaper article, in rising, falls	NIAGARA
Act of taking someone off to prison, mean I fancy	IMPERSONATION
Composition offering some jingles on a tambourine	SONATA
Dandy holding glittering light	fog lamp
Drop into abyss, a goner	SAG
Endlessly repeated thus, commercial has rebranded a US name	ad nauseam
Fastener locking posh couple of females in prison	cuff link
Feature a nation	CHINA
Fraud misleading dupes	PSEUD
Fruit — penny for every one	PEACH
Grind the grit, so more dense	TIGHTER
Lead compound heals	LEASH

 

Clues	Answers
Letter read out — gosh!	GEE
Never vandalised loo ninety-four!	not on your life
Old-time swinger?	PENDULUM
One about to display passion	IRE
One translation of earliest ancient Hebrew	ISRAELITE
Power — a youth desperate to grab it after start of revolution	AUTHORITY
Rat, something in compost heap, perhaps?	ROTTER
Sauce lifted over golden rice dish	PILAU
Sly cat in shop finding source of money	CASHPOINT
Small, small bed for Highlander?	SCOT
Suffering bird, did you say? That's unlawful	ILLEGAL
Test cricket for today ends	TRY
Welsh boy church body upset	EVAN