The Times - Cryptic - March 13 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26984
Clues	Answers
Agent crossing railway line nimbly	SPRYLY
Be perfectly aware what’s short of water, do we hear?	know full well
Bovid mammal bound to be tied to stake	ANTELOPE
Characters entering for a Latin exam	ORAL
Church feature identified in downloads, so to speak	APSE
Curious thing about soft drink at bedtime	NIGHTCAP
English knight competed, being grudgingly admired	ENVIED
Graduate at Sorbonne who at first supported French underground	MAQUIS
Inferior to some quarters in spa city	BENEATH
Make an impression, and so on, with Head of History	ETCH
Not the condition of drunkard unknown to eat cheese?	SOBRIETY
Old lady sheltering a convict in Continental resort	MALAGA
One tearing into extremely fruity trifles?	FRIPPERY
One who employs asses regularly in ancient city	USER
Our new envoy foolishly crosses king — anything could happen!	you never know
Protestant, before initially singing some bits, rushed to invite one in	PRESBYTERIAN
Provide new community for theatre the Spanish writer set up	REPEOPLE
Reformed persons finally make comeback	RESPONSE
Sloth unknown in East, captured by young woman	LAZINESS
Supervised old archdeacon, suppressing language	OVERSEEN
Swaggering adventurer’s sister about to clean clasp	SWASHBUCKLER
This writer’s books about store, due out soon	IMMINENT
Time a girl embraces popular sovereign’s wife	TSARINA
Turn up with husband in tent, supplying healthy food	YOGHURT
Unusually apt clue covering Yankee oil producer	EUCALYPT
Uproar when brown bear traps leaders of large youth hostel	BALLYHOO
Words maybe associated with some fine gauzy fabric	TIFFANY
Work with men at old port	ORATORIO
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1046
Clues	Answers
Alternative arrangement for trial	ORDEAL
Broadcast shows monarch's head in carriage	TRANSMIT
Commotion starts in showers, then inmates riot	STIR
Cutting cards? No, I shuffled	SARDONIC
Draw level? Not quite	TIE
Finished on top	OVER
Fish served up on top of king-size vegetable	LEEK
Flag of British queen and king	BANNER
Game bird and beef	GROUSE
Game with brandy initially taken inside manor	HANDBALL
Grow rapidly in Greek character's hot chamber	MUSHROOM
Hint concerning bodyguard	REMINDER
It's unimportant, gossip about old medium	no matter
Legendary character, famous tenor, briefly on island	ICARUS
Little credit associated with one quite awful appraisal	CRITIQUE
Locality surrounding a royal residence	PALACE
Note about those at wild party makes one cross	TRAVERSE
Platform said to be repaired	DAIS
Rhode Island church is full	RICH
Small page shed tears	WEEP
So happy at first to find tree	ASH
Some other draft animals in a large group	HERD
Song referring to good-for-nothing	LAYABOUT
Vessel carrying right flag	STREAMER
What sounds like full agreement	PACT
With pleasure, organise charity event?	fun run