The Times - Cryptic - March 19 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26989
Clues	Answers
Adhesive substance son squeezed into part of tack	RESIN
Agent involved in spying? It makes you sick!	BUG
At which place heroin used to be around	WHERE
Atlantic state’s supplier of heat and light	GAS
Board engaging medic in Eastern States	EMBUS
Break top off hand tool making spiked wheel	ROWEL
Carefully place silicon in store	DEPOSIT
Composer run into in hospital area	SMETANA
Conflict interrupting commercial settlement	AWARD
Consider senior cleric’s responsibility	SEE
Contact a companion about being on top	REACH
Cultivate head of dogwood the first lady cut off	DEVELOP
Dispatch English composer unknown in Irish town	KILLARNEY
English novelist pronounced on poet’s boldness	HARDIHOOD
Female child-minder reportedly profits, ignoring one’s roguishness	SHENANIGANS
Good to get involved carrying about fruit	GREENGAGE
Governor’s girl displaying coarse fabric	HESSIAN
Hotchpotch of salmon pie in port?	MINNEAPOLIS
I enthuse endlessly about tucking into granny’s casserole	NAVARIN
Irregular rule a girl violated	GUERRILLA
Knocking back most of the drink, pine throughout dark hours	nightlong
Like GBS, brought up to keep a lot of drink in quarters?	BEWHISKERED
Listener originally lambasting sixties youth over title	EARLDOM
Model chap, one sent out to produce copy	ARCHETYPE
Old crone’s coarse tobacco lacking substance at first	HAG
One covers crumbling ruins with hesitation	INSURER
Pulpy food rejected always at university	PUREE
Rascal caught accomplice dipping into booty	SCALLYWAG
Stratagem old magistrate employed to trap duke	DODGE
Support for men only available ultimately behind the scenes	BACKSTAGE
Way to stop nearly half of 20’s hostile attacks	INROADS
Woman politician covering northern village where elopers once wed	gretna green
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1050
Clues	Answers
A grain seed	ACORN
Beer for hospital employee	PORTER
Brilliant writer put at the top	superscribe
Churchgoer in French capital dealt heroin	PARISHIONER
Large, obese all round: the result of a blow-out?	FLAT
Last resort to put up the money for station	BACKSTOP
Mess tart about in bed	MATTRESS
New European friend’s country	NEPAL
Obscure energy cuts end in catastrophe	ECLIPSE
Policeman has hours in helicopter	CHOPPER
Queen Richelieu has to make wealthy	ENRICH
Reference arranged at St Emilion	TESTIMONIAL
Rise in endowment interrupted by decease	GRADIENT
Rural establishment a long way off motorway	FARM
Small company with work that’s exclusive	SCOOP
Small military camp is not in position	OUTPOST
Still a number going topless	EVEN
Swell certainly to consume gallons	SURGE
Symbol kept shut up, left in the care of wizard	PENTACLE
Tear after mongrel that’s in fashion	CURRENT
Think Dennis gets upset, being this, perhaps	thin-skinned
Times keeping us hard at work	BUSY
Valuable property like stations or plants	ASSETS
Woodwind player, old boy is surrounded by books	OBOIST