The Times - Cryptic - Mar 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26974
Clues	Answers
Author's predicament, having to keep wife in Scottish town	PLAYWRIGHT
Check track, one going out for two miles east	TRAMMEL
Commander keeping order and making folk laugh?	COMIC
Country match, not the first outside city area	GREECE
Degeneration of a younger wife?	ATROPHY
Dull expert, speaker finally restricted	DRAB
English difficulty about good person forced to leave?	EMIGRE
Fighting group runs volunteers: favoured, assuredly	for certain
Goat in the French church	LECH
Hesitation about pretty covering is necessary	REQUISITE
Love being in that place with head of maths — learning this?	THEOREM
Material this person's buried under hideaway	DENIM
More unhappy maiden covered in dirt (introduction to rugby)	GRIMMER
Oliver starts to experience regret as a crook?	TWISTER
Pages kept in step, creating a dotty effect	STIPPLE
Quick swim by jetty is less sensible	DIPPIER
Rejected, but shone once more?	REBUFFED
Reversals of policy quietly being introduced to bring improvements	UPTURNS
Rope perhaps in notorious place of execution?	TOWER
Rotten tree woman stumbles over	worm-eaten
Said to 'esitate when meeting danger signal	AVERRED
Society weighed down by additional customs	MORES
Start to read crime novelist, one with discursive style?	RAMBLER
Strip game bishop should abstain from	RIDGE
Surveyor's instrument repositioned in the hollowed out elm tree	TELEMETER
That peculiar strain leading to sporting success	hat trick
Use of many words, see, as with large community	LOQUACITY
Very hot in April and Oct. unusually	TROPICAL
Vessels in lake — skill's needed to go round it	ARTERIES
Winner not needing soldiers after end of battle to turn out	EVICT
Woman feels spite, regularly put off	ELSIE
You may get upset about cricket side, producing a lamentation	ELEGY

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1038
Clues	Answers
A trial — faulty lasso	LARIAT
Animal talk	YAK
Barrel-maker in company work, retro, off and on	COOPER
Be enthusiastic about account, one saying little about island	ACCLAIM
Beastly home in West Yorkshire	STY
By sea, kiln for drying in California	COASTAL
Central European with job — good place to start	pole position
Colour that is not trendy at first	TINT
Done, and fast, extremely skilful	DEFT
Finish repair work Monsieur’s left	ENDING
Foster often wrong, grabbing maiden	FOMENT
Go in advance of gym class, crossing playground with journalist	PRECEDE
He makes long journey finally short — about kilometre forward and back?	TREKKER
Identity assumed for men, woman and me	stage name
Insensitive Charlie, right fool!	CRASS
Lively good popular gallery, all going	GINGERY
Long twelvemonth at end of campaign	YEARN
Metro ride chap arranged to see Paris monument	arc de triomphe
Newly evidenced, paid? This at conflict’s end?	peace dividend
Pungency of a new drink girl imbibes	TANGINESS
Son nervous describing grasses	SEDGY
Soothing word with the head of News, immediately	there and then
Vain attempt you keep hidden	EMPTY
Worrier fired up seeing initially awkward situation	FUSSPOT