The Times - Cryptic - December 8 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26903
Clues	Answers
A twin moans dreadfully in close contest	mano a mano
Band vote for parade	SASHAY
Brother returning in poor TV show	mr bean
Clay, perhaps, brought by small spades into college	CASSIUS
Desert padre as hearse turns up, dropping off regulars	SAHARA
Done in the style of curious old warning	ALARUM
Girl’s forte getting savings account for daughter	LOUISA
Going back through park? Pop over	RECAP
Groom guarding enclosure for money	CURRENCY
Home appropriate for the richer	in pocket
Insects and rat on grain containers	GRASSHOPPERS
Management notes how long spent watching movie?	running time
Not entirely fit trade, making flannel	EQUIVOCATION
One arriving on day six, or the day before	EVE
One needing guard, perhaps, to start shooting	open fire
Only a fool would assume this “pleb” scandal resolved	cap and bells
Our MP was one for arranging campaigns on drug issue	opium wars
Prepare to scrap pay	square up
Pretend that degree is fake, bizarrely	make as if
Range in which writer figures	PENNINES
Red blubber that woman slices	CHERRY
Reptile and amphibian getting left in cargo	BOATLOAD
Stays, generally, well prepared, on track	CORSETRY
Take cover from inflatable mattress picked up?	lie low
Upset body organising football legend’s friendly	AFFABLE
We go round it daily	SUN
Where commandments received, breaking one leads to fine	SINAI
With this one’s closer to nude model?	LESSON
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 979
Clues	Answers
A bit rusty, like a retired GP?	out of practice
All right to be carried by the man on lorry leaving plant	ARTICHOKE
Awkward writer reflected in it	INEPT
Batteries not included in preparing this food	free-range eggs
Cake and a drink in heart of Burgundy	GATEAU
Certainly not name of listener	no fear
Country importing a Greek scent	FRAGRANCE
Full ticket price shown in street	THOROUGHFARE
Fury as old car fails to start	ANGER
Hot in pleasant corner	NICHE
Husband a bishop, perhaps	MAN
Ingrained dirt, dreadful by end of aisle	GRIME
Innocent mistake concerning vision	OVERSIGHT
Interceptors faulty, on reflection	in retrospect
Native American quickly casing hotel	APACHE
New threat involving English playhouse	THEATRE
Nonsense, coming from brother-in-law	ROT
Object? Fine and good	THING
Reversal of decline in fossil fuel	GAS
Strict member of the clergy turned up in diocese	SEVERE
Take steps in a court	ACT
Taking offence	THEFT
The height of women's fashion?	HEMLINE
Working in a centre for fruit	NECTARINE