The Times - Cryptic - March 8 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solutions- March 8 2018  

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26980
Clues	Answers
Almost unrestricted speed in run	OPERATE
Bit embarrassed evidently by second husband	SHRED
Climbing pea's tips concealed plant pest	APHID
Devil that is heartless model for irreverence	IMPIETY
Dreadful crustacean in river drained lake	EXECRABLE
Drinkers drinking still in Kentish Town?	SEVENOAKS
Edmund Crouchback say thrown in road by king	LANCASTER
Fantastic doctor to close with thread over in A&E	AWESOME
Fellow brought to court with daughter shivers	MATCHWOOD
Foremost among minds that cracks cases?	HOLMES
Glib learner in pub is transformed with ale	PLAUSIBLE
Huge effort required to admit old prejudice	BIGOTRY
Item with Oedipal strings attached?	APRON
Loading at sea keeps ship in rapid passage	GLISSANDO
Loveless pair become confused in silly talk	TWADDLE
Message online and call from branch?	TWEET
Old city has loyal citizens, in for exercise	CONSTANTINOPLE
One readily turns extremist joining faction	wing nut
Own silver on table at last	AGREE
Rabble-rousing lacks initial impression	EDITION
Revolutionary drink sweetheart uncovered?	KIROV
Serve Republican British bitter	ACERB
Silhouette's one small horse breaking into dash	EPONYM
Speech coming out of our mouth?	estuary english
State in which a priest entertains a bishop	ALABAMA
Storyteller sending up main work	AESOP
Theatre skill doubled energy in comic dialogue	REPARTEE
US writer and editor welcoming Kew grower	Pokeweed
We weren't first knights wicked pursuer's trapped	runners-up
We're toast having rolled vehicle	two-seater
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1043
Clues	Answers
A family saying arising with northern Turkish	OTTOMAN
Able to remember role of landlord? Exactly right	letter-perfect
Bad poetry on poster, perhaps	ADVERSE
Cat good catching mice and weasel finally	FELINE
Causing anxiety decades before EU’s beginning	TENSE
Claw used in some brutal onslaught	TALON
Cross that is large breed of dog	SPANIEL
Cruel person’s beheaded river mammal	OTTER
Do peers meet to get involved in gauge for HS2?	SPEEDOMETER
Drive to discourage people on motorway	DETERMINATION
Get rotten referee in place years	PUTREFY
Military call always recalled unwell European	REVEILLE
Missing light vessel to east of delta	DARK
Missionary has job cutting beer	APOSTLE
Nicely stranded in base invaded by sudden attack	BRAIDED
Number furious to see traveller	NOMAD
One who inherits after time what’s belonging to them	THEIR
Precise English — Times to take action	EXACT
Rebroadcast programme about natural fuel	REPEAT
Run found in woven tussore garment	TROUSERS
Second favourite reversed dance movement	STEP
Some cube numbers can be dull	BENUMB
Sound continuously from rarer bee vet treated	REVERBERATE
Tastelessly loud supporter’s disheartened, say	BRASSY