The Times - Cryptic - November 6 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 955

Clues	Answers
Bishop among peers getting bribes, perhaps	NOBBLES
Country dacha: it impresses on the inside	HAITI
Desire to take in drama — and like some records?	long-playing
Fantastic sum lay in a safe place	ASYLUM
Girl seen in mirror, topless	LASS
Hack Charlie’s first dance	CHOP
Having several marriage partners from old college and high	POLYGAMY
Hero having nothing to do on radio?	IDOL
Hotel, so dilapidated, in African state	LESOTHO
Joint dismissal?	ELBOW
Observed absence of small boy?	NOTED
Oddly ignored ulna: x-rays next part of windpipe	LARYNX

 

Clues	Answers
Old forum was surprisingly very well-known	world-famous
One failing to turn up — boy turned up, by the way	no-show
Partner touring work unit gets bad reaction	ALLERGY
Rapidly get large cocktail	SNOWBALL
Reaction to serious setback with rent?	thats torn it
Section of coelacanth, illogically, found in insect colony	ANTHILL
Small item baby wears, fashionable	SNAPPY
The Speaker’s feeble for a few days	WEEK
Warn old dear, raving about crime prevention	law-and-order
Way-out method of predicting elections?	exit poll
What waiter brings perhaps is left in wet, dissolving	wine list
Wheels: posh ones!	ROLLS

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26875

Clues	Answers
A Guernsey detective cut off sharpish	ACIDIC
After a short time, about to turn against a goddess	MINERVA
Almost broke surface	SKIN
Arch charity worker’s plea	OGIVE
Being king, suppressing rising in turn is very unattractive	REPUGNANT
Book advises the right clothes	ESTHER
Briefly on fire, Roman priest almost smothers bishop	FLAMBE
Charge about, arresting one or two	PAIR
Congratulations for assassin	BRAVO
During worship I dream	REVERIE
Fail to leave ring? Yes	go belly up
I have endless stock, and add in new?	INVESTOR
I think, and I write what I think here?	in my book
Inside mountain, radius taken	BESPOKEN

 

Clues	Answers
Little chap drinks port to grow massively	run riot
Moving quietly up, steal fabric	CREPE
Picture of seaside town, artist taking it	PORTRAIT
Rascal sticks pin into gangster but without force	SCAPEGRACE
Revolutionary act well before the Boston Tea Party?	gunpowder plot
Rose suddenly turned pale and finally wept	LEAPT
Series of talks from heretic result in chaos	reith lectures
Setting out from old place	EXPOSITION
Son wearing fairy cloak that gives a superior look	PERISCOPE
Statue perhaps of couple with king stored in chest	ARTWORK
To explain (a phrase she didn’t use): I must come first	in other words
User isn’t bothered by salesman’s initial lack of practice	RUSTINESS
What bestows second sight?	REAPPEARANCE
What my pet loves: a drink of milk and a piece of cake brought up