The Times - Cryptic - November 30 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26896
Clues	Answers
A woman in bed is unable to	CANNOT
Agitate Arab leader on radio?	SHAKE
Alleged lover securing introduction to roving reporter	CORRESPONDENT
Around Jersey, etc, loneliness engenders concern	SOLICITUDE
Attire sent flying in US motorway	INTERSTATE
Barker's surprised cry when catching a nail	LABRADOR
Call girls knocked back, say, by youth leader's plan	STRATEGY
Condition that retro pub stops supplying mineral	STANNITE
Cut of meat — something served up when duke is absent	RIB
Daughter, thought to have lost head, turned aside	DEFLECTED
Delayed, little boy finally runs to centre	TARDY
Depressed fellow associated with tabloid	SUNKEN
Furious, caught in cool mountain range with little money!	INCANDESCENT
Heads of such knockabout institutions go downhill fast	SKI
Meat brought in before noon: last of chicken leg for king	AGAMEMNON
Near sensation of prickling restricting a singer	NIGHTINGALE
Officer involved in a pact with leaders of great publishing firm?	group captain
Old-maidish teacher recalled in spy novel	PRISSY
Points about new graduates collectively	en masse
Singular pair managed to pinch old pouch	SPORRAN
Sort of wedding disheartened old Japanese commander	SHOGUN
Sportsperson's obstruction revealed in a couple of articles	ATHLETE
State of Newcastle supporter introducing 1960s pop?	NEBRASKA
They engage people who arrive outside embassy	commissioners
Uncommon procedure involving female getting thinner	RAREFACTION
Very small fruit in yellow boxes	TINY
Woman keeping the Queen's decorative artwork	TRACERY
Work over, turned up with son	OPUS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 973
Clues	Answers
Abstainer penning little message	TWEET
Cake in historic Scottish location	SCONE
Cautious cleaning lady ultimately busy	CHARY
Charitable donations cut on old street? Very nearly	ALMOST
Difference of opinion admitted by the German wanderer	DRIFTER
Difficult retreating in rich silk city	TICKLISH
Extraordinarily call sit-in for small thing	SCINTILLA
Greeting upset mother unfortunately	SALAAM
Left-winger isn't last I upset	STALINIST
Money kidnapper demands after time that's found in ship	TRANSOM
No longer asleep — needing a wash?	AWAKE
Note two dukes, indeed twelve	MIDDAY
One's particular responsibility for bird	PIGEON
Policy to retain age of certain popes	LEONINE
Red coat fashioned in 1930s style	art deco
Right to speak, for example	SAY
Selects deal organised for tourist attraction	leeds castle
Sisters here in turn, one early regularly	NUNNERY
Sober and sedate way to help	STAID
Some order van fuel	DERV
Stupid, like idiot's opening figure	ASININE
Tense, gave instruction in speech	TAUT
Unwilling to spend, nicking artist's fish?	sting-ray
With one's own enthusiastic Romeo, first of all — this one?	WOOER
Wolves' first home victory	WIN
Wrong from the start?	original sin