The Times - Cryptic - November 7 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 956

Clues	Answers
A snooty person picked up one small plant	BONSAI
Audibly remained calm	STAID
Be only partially successful in looking attractive	WINSOME
Beneficiary a man we hear making long-distance communication	air-mail
College and school subject mostly for brainy type	POLYMATH
Conclude what to do with parcel	wrap up
Curtailed bid to trap deer out of view	off-stage
Determined a soldier should get round blockage	ADAMANT
Disorder is nothing with Charles around	CHAOS
Do not oppose legislation limiting Church power	ACCEPT
End up suppressing an example of mental illness	MANIA
Fingertip zone roughly identifying when ice forms	freezing-point
Force everybody to stumble	FALL

 

Clues	Answers
Friend leading Mass including second devotional song	PSALM
Gather old woman's blocking a school's opening	AMASS
Group of twelve things, one dozen recalled by Bill	ZODIAC
Presenting no problems, occupying house as yet	EASY
Railway employee adapted to steam-trains	station master
Region to receive new sporting venue	ARENA
Reporter's claim to look good	IMPRESS
Runs into holiday site exhibiting muscle pain	CRAMP
Source of wool a lot of shops rejected	LLAMA
Strike starts to seriously limit actual production	SLAP
Stupid turning over black wet soil	DUMB
Suggestion to support development of Laos	PROPOSAL
Unhappy actors covered by feathers	DOWNCAST

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26876

Clues	Answers
A bit that's positive about Italian in honourable mention	CITATION
Birds wanting home when caught in air currents	PUFFINS
Claim spa town is lacking hospital	ARROGATE
Consider hunt gatherings savage ultimately, on reflection	ESTEEM
Energy and most of remaining protein	ELASTIN
Foreign lady in trick, valuable person going the wrong way	CONTESSA
Freedom, with saints for the first time showing sluggishness	LASSITUDE
Get weight reduced somehow — one component of breakfast food?	egg white
Horse above average height, one reined in by boy	STALLION
I beam, receiving collection of books — something to put on desk	in-tray
Indifferent and mean, having trapped girl finally	BLASE
Insist on fan keeping quiet for minutes	STIPULATE
Like a memory of event — tries forgetting the end somehow	RETENTIVE
Most intimate relations shown in a bit of coarse material	matiest
Neglected child needs caressing, housing of superior character	FOUNDLING

 

Clues	Answers
Old invalid like Humpty Dumpty	OVOID
One of the players in the side	WING
Part of City invested in Indian money no longer	PIECE
Pick up from valley around start of autumn	GLEAN
Possible clue to mad don being a misfit	odd man out
Prisoners put down, observed to be upset	INTERNEES
Release from complicated relationship — gentleman ends it with difficulty	DISENTANGLEMENT
Restricted in temporary accommodation to house refugees primarily	CRAMPED
Rocky location with risk — one approaching it may be doomed	GIBBET
Seaman comes to island, back in old harbour	OSTIA
Stir created by French author's introduction being cut	ROUST
Tease silly person	TWIT
TV doctor had one work of fiction	WHODUNIT
What's expected of orchestra, pure playing	par for the course
Would-be lover wanting men at back of clubs?	SUITOR