The Times - Cryptic - March 2 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26975
Clues	Answers
Africans, a Welshman, and some Scots?	ivorians
Article female related unaltered	as is
Attack pacifist leading appeal for peace	COSH
Benefit that people must carry over	MAIDEN
Bloomer as drug agent sends out missing drug	NARCISSUS
Daughter, passionate, celebrated nude	DAVID
Declined to pot, for example, first and second reds	LEFTISTS
Desperate option many tars ponder ultimately?	any port in a storm
Even pieces of carpet I lay so as to fit	APTLY
Fall for American, not half: love his car!	AUTO
Finally blow into warm club providing cosy environment	WOMB
Fish from tin, roughly prepared sandwiches	red snapper
Fur coat owner’s embarrassed admission?	ERMINE
Have a go at someone’s short cut	SNIP
He’d put out east from the Caymans, somehow?	YACHTSMAN
Lockkeeper to become a leading musician?	HEADBAND
Noisy pigeon set about quiet old Hollywood actor	COOPER
Nothing, within reason, eclipsing first of these, apparently	OSTENSIBLY
Old peasant to rear woodland creature	HIND
One expecting the right to wear second medal	mother-to-be
Opposed to golf, on balance, being arranged again	restaging
Pack up stuff for temporary abode	crash pad
Promise fair puzzle	word-square
Ran slowly in what’s deceptive light	TRICKLED
Refusal to lift tax for working	on duty
Starter of duck becoming duck and egg	OVOID
Stuff essential for giving or getting	GORGE
They need walk-on parts for their sketches	pavement artists
This could be M’s part? Yes	SPYMASTER
Time to stop a curiously old-fashioned etching technique	AQUATINT
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1039
Clues	Answers
Adore getting hold of a good herb	LOVAGE
Army officers moved quickly leaving retail outlet	general store
At sea in a launch	AFLOAT
Be absorbed in thought about island's waste	MISUSE
Beams, having last of bread-and-butter pudding	RAFTERS
Character left in support	FLAVOUR
Cold and unemotional type in charge, diver recalled	ICEBERG
Complete circuit, or segment?	ORBIT
Courage of owner finally entering flat that's been turned over	NERVE
Determined to attack	set upon
Gift: story together with religious books	TALENT
Grass box breaking toe badly	ESPARTO
How farmer let off weapon	flame-thrower
Irish being buried in vault abroad is unreal	VIRTUAL
Money drawn in by rake, as standard procedure	ROUTINE
Powerful drug: one taken with expression of doubt after operation	OPIUM
Prognosis Meg put about, being spreader of rumours	GOSSIPMONGER
Ringleader taking in very English sleuth	INVESTIGATOR
Rotter's rotten gag about a deb coming out	a bad egg
Shot below joint	ELBOW
Sound coming from piano is extraordinary	NOISE
Strong second row	STIFF
Trunk and tangled roots	TORSO
Unacceptable idea I dismissed	not on