The Times - Cryptic - February 14 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26961
Clues	Answers
Affected by bugs, get cold after first day of month	SEPTIC
Base established — cycle around it?	PEDESTAL
Bed or mattress? It may be found in here	DORM
Cheats and criminals caught out	ROOKS
Endless chatter around a fellow's clubs	LATHIS
Inscribed within church window maybe see knight	LANCELOT
Island for the nobs featured in back issue of periodical	GUAM
Looked at team getting embarrassed after trick	CONSIDERED
Love appearing in underwear in funny shows	PANTOS
Magical power of weaver in story spoken of	MANA
Melting tarmac starts to restrict some vehicles	TRAMCARS
Officer’s plan again to retreat	WARDER
Perversion is admitted by unfortunate male	SADISM
Poet’s line, one on compassion	LOVELACE
Pole’s few lines of poetry	ANODE
Priest and French actor performing? It's uplifting	LEVITATION
Reduce something bloody, having got back in time	DEROGATE
Resolved to restrict cold with health-giving ingredients	MEDICATED
Several faiths TV represented in a religious celebration	harvest festival
Sheep runs that may hold water	EWER
Short chum sits on meadow, squashing one plant	BUDDLEIA
Spoke favouring reform — not Conservative	RADIAL
Strong tastes, first to last, creating uncomfortable feeling	ANGST
Sure to be upset following party conversation	DISCOURSE
This person is probing your old-fashioned food content	THIAMINE
Trader giving one artist supply	STATIONER
Traffic needs to speed up heading for Edinburgh	TRADE
Tribe has bewildered language expert	HEBRAIST
With something large in the environment, lose out completely	WHOLESALE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1027
Clues	Answers
Despicable person embracing Conservative is bigot	RACIST
Disease often connected to small cow or chicken	POX
Fair lottery excited mob a lot	TOMBOLA
Flake of hard skin almost touching soft skin on head	SCALP
Float around without hearing organs in brave style	FEARLESSLY
Keep quiet on Socialist scrap	SHRED
Manage to secure short period in office when it’s cold	WINTER
Maybe mother’s personal assistant hiring fee	PARENTAL
Method of wiring limb in alternative therapy	TELEGRAPHY
Minion’s facial bruise with the edges not visible	LACKEY
Perhaps react with disgust, energy and animosity	SPITE
Possibly a quotation of at the most one million	MAXIM
Profit-seeker’s hat, the thing in front of a catalogue	CAPITALIST
Similar approach, not finishing Bible story	COMPARABLE
Some of clever ruses go wrong	ERR
Supervise selection from Shinto verse epic	OVERSEE
Switch between two positions, as leg got twisted	TOGGLE
The man dismissed from Ashes is a fool	ASS
Top Gear where carport is typically built?	OVERDRIVE
Touch down before team secures 50 for decisive win	LANDSLIDE
UN regime reformed foundation for Pavlova	MERINGUE
Venomous creature like viper, at heart	ASP
Way to follow sailor overseas	ABROAD
Work history, looking after patients coming to US casualty department	CAREER