The Times - Cryptic - December 27 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 992
Clues	Answers
Aggressive commanding officer and doctor show up	COMBATIVE
Assign position in river	DEPUTE
Beat counter to get change	TROUNCE
Behold fire beginning to be put out — there's flowing water here	LOIRE
Card game that can get red hot	POKER
Cathedral staff producing part of a book	CHAPTER
Certainly fashionable to have legal document	INDEED
Eccentric stranger in odd arrangement for regular payments	standing order
Endless impertinence by group showing enthusiasm	CHEERING
Fade away, allowance of food and drink being cut	DIE
Genius Albert, not a German mug!	STEIN
Greek character some maybe tamed	BETA
Clues	Answers
Greeting with a number being hugged in foreign capital	HANOI
Groups of parishes with luvvies around the north-east	deaneries
He's a daft drunk and goofs	FATHEADS
Mathematical function is hit	COSH
Naughty tot kept in pen in small house	COTTAGE
Place with a group of detectives becomes calm	PLACID
Propriety requires new code — bottom less than totally visible!	DECORUM
Regret being disabled, not losing heart	LAMENT
Set member up	GEL
Strange joke — pitch that to win a big prize	hit the jackpot
Travel game is taking place in Anglican church	CRUISE
Yell coming from son given fatty food	SCREAM
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26919
Clues	Answers
Approach position, await and intercept	WAYLAY
Aspect is strangely unrealistic	ESCAPIST
Basically that's worked to hold attention	at heart
Beastly physician confuses artery with vein	VETERINARY
Bible teachings given to Polish faithful	word-perfect
Dancer pulled this trick endlessly	SLEIGH
Editor turned author appears opening pink newspaper	INDEPENDENT
Fat vicar's bottom pinched by groom	LARD
Fighter’s awful risk near person holding horse	SKIRMISHER
Given coaching in voice that's showing strain	TAUT
Green part in smoke that rolls over tongue	GAELIC
Help coward to escape youngster	spring chicken
Leaves tip — fiver's inside	ENDIVE
Lethargy from one in Cheers, after popular hospital series	INERTIA
Limit soldiers enforced stringently	RESTRICT
Clues	Answers
Lonely type getting up behind Chinese people	ORPHAN
Mountain climbing in Newport ruined juice producer	power plant
Night signaller’s extremely irrational, and frequently upset	very pistol
Old secretary put on pounds or stone	OPAL
One beginning to fail	FOUNDER
One following account breaks out	INEXACT
Poet retaining English structure as basis	SKELETON
Pretender by stream gets to grips with family feud	perkin warbeck
Regular couple from Delft provide current address	EFFENDI
Soldier dropped in standard initially achieved	PARA
Timber carried back in Noah's Ark	ASH
Time to race along — hard going for distance swimmer	TURTLE
Twosome united in act	DUO
Viewed from South Island, a killer whale finds land	CROATIA
Wife left bed, getting out after hours at hotel	HATHAWAY