The Times - Cryptic - March 6 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26978
Clues	Answers
A couple of Poles taken in by purchase deal	TRANSACTION
About ten monkeys playing with gas — from these?	oxygen masks
Cake aims to get awards	brownie points
Cheese fondue's first for barman?	BRIEF
Citizen’s food sent up with woman's	BURGHER
Court official, firm one belted by bishop?	CORONER
Cover one name of course	INSURE
Distributed vast incomes to defend right political ideology	CONSERVATISM
Express anger about constant cavity	VENTRICLE
Foreign articles extremely likely to be getting on	ELDERLY
Ingredient of healthy meals?	THYME
Jumper Mark has got hold of without assistance?	polo-neck
Light was at the front	LED
Long time taken up securing pit candidate	NOMINEE
Make box for holding tablet	CREATE
Operated by pressure, plug still not coming up	push-button
Part-time doctor and daughter keeping swine supplied with water	HYDRATED
Plant takes a short while to camouflage brick container	ASPHODEL
Spot one of three in Fiji	DOT
Staff in courses on reflection settled matter	SEDIMENT
Stubborn little chap drank bottles	self-willed
Studies state on board English ship	ESSAYS
This method briefly doing for a medic?	modus operandi
Waste carrier avoids small vessel	EWER
Wielding this could make you chesty	SCYTHE
Wood popular in gym	PINE
Works of obscure poetaster	OPERETTAS
Wow! Is sauce included in awful local dish?	cornish pasty
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1041
Clues	Answers
Coward to cry in pain and alarm? Yes, initially	yellow-belly
Did some gardening? Then have a party!	HOEDOWN
Elevator not working, for start of mission?	lift-off
English poet’s uninteresting study	DRYDEN
Former lover of grasping lord, with a limp	old flame
French philosopher’s arrest arranged	SARTRE
Girl’s fabulous zeal overwhelming one	ELIZA
Handy American fuel supply	USEFUL
Hurried up, harshly told off, or simply told	NARRATED
Minister of Sport disturbed about article	PASTOR
One month, just, in London area	MAYFAIR
One very loud Yankee becoming doubtful	IFFY
Oscar greeting another Oscar in US state	OHIO
Part of core curriculum to come round again	RECUR
Poles placed beneath male birds	HENS
Put out from the far side?	OFFEND
Reliable or false story: truth about West	TRUSTWORTHY
Reluctant to keep home gleaming	SHINY
Resident of Mull maybe is left with the Queen	ISLANDER
Sole concern?	fish farm
Something stirring like NY’s?	SKYLINE
Songbook Hamlyn adapted	HYMNAL
Spanish hero turning up in Icelandic league	el cid
Sports ground that’s not viable on regular basis	OVAL
Two Britons Down Under coming together for ball	POMPOM
Work on the whole stressful: lass ultimately prepares to pray?	KNEELS