The Times - Cryptic - December 26 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 991
Clues	Answers
Aircraft operator, one involved in conspiracy	PILOT
Aquatic bird endlessly climbing floating mass of ice	BERG
Argument involving knight in decayed building?	run-in
Avoid parking on end of field — a village feature, perhaps	DUCKPOND
Cake English girl left unfinished	ECLAIR
Close-harmony singing in US composer’s dance	BARBERSHOP
Completely throwing HRH — too ugly!	THOROUGHLY
Crucial member of dorm, one typing email?	KEYBOARDER
During excavation, opening for Oxford blue	INDIGO
Facility used by skater in Kiev?	RINK
Florid style initially rousing old clown	ROCOCO
Hairstyle designed to accommodate the workers?	BEEHIVE
Item of cricketing equipment miscreants sometimes jump?	BAIL
Like the gods, lacking time to be debauched	IMMORAL
Little bird Oscar left in damp	OWLET
Putting on airs, like mother supervising sisters?	SUPERIOR
Real net unexpectedly lasting for ever	ETERNAL
Staff held up by two men, one from Skopje, perhaps	MACEDONIAN
Study origins of Georgian and Latin American dance	CONGA
Take longer than expected with regard to marathon, say	OVERRUN
Toil Bert recollected, producing book	LIBRETTO
Tree-lined street, a meeting-place	AVENUE
Tribesmen politician encountered in islands	IMPI
Uncertainty created by American writers in Home Counties	SUSPENSE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26918
Clues	Answers
Bag gripping role on American movie	SPARTACUS
Bid already made for a living	daily bread
Bone problem besetting winger	STERNUM
Bottom edge of bat hit, caught	TRAPPED
Column I bandaged?	PILASTER
Composure needed — lack of power in broken wings?	UNFLAPPABILITY
Concentration of turbines turn a long way, miles	wind farm
Dejected, post-exorcism?	SPIRITLESS
Great Britain initially led astray with something that's bizarre!	the mind boggles
Great queen backing formula	RECIPE
Hard to invest in bank for legislative assembly	CHAMBER
I doubt decaying houses beginning to crumble	SCEPTIC
In brief, total out after strike action	battle of britain
Island placed to the west has overly excited state	TASMANIA
Japanese entertainer in bondage is handmaiden	GEISHA
Murmur about this Latin style of punk	MOHICAN
Mushroom fine in the midst of evening	ENOKI
Patient investigation	CASE
Plant, one breaking some land up	ERICA
Progressive at first, stay moderate	PRESIDE
Quality arousing sorrow has power over Dumas character	PATHOS
Reason ecclesiastical leader in primate is the chosen one	APPOINTEE
Reinterpretation of Anglicanism here in the words of Martin Luther King, say?	american english
Thin British film director	LEAN
Trace accommodating auberge in France, perhaps?	REPUBLIC
V — a sign that’s rude in vacuous affront	AGAINST
Very simple thing for bird to catch worms, ultimately	PROTIST
Washers the wrong way round in gun	pom-pom