The Times - Cryptic - July 2 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27079
Clues	Answers
60s' film hero visiting hostile mining area	COALFIELD
American going through two states to find, say, Oklahoma!	MUSICAL
Attacker drops new weapon	LUGER
Close — and quickly — after turning key, storage facility at bank	night safe
Computer in 2001 revealed what's 75% of 50%	HAL
Democrat and Republican etc make it, somehow?	dream ticket
Egg, one with top sliced off	NIT
Fail to achieve target, as nostalgic German banker might?	miss the mark
Fed Midlands community on upside-down pudding	stoked up
Fellow reduced rent for holiday accommodation	CHALET
Finish school, having gap year before attending university?	break up
Growth of one singing French version of She?	CHANTERELLE
Half the people on earth smell	HUM
Higher gear, zigzagging across motorway	GAMIER
Male name given with some hesitation	callum
Music sent up in Brussels concert?	GIGUE
Novel, fateful time for Julius Caesar?	MIDDLEMARCH
Offensive and frosty-sounding, speaking thus?	tetchily
Old surgeon — successful one, presumably — less well-known	OBSCURER
One lives on alcoholic drink, reportedly	RESIDER
One place to sleep at foot of hill in Spanish resort	BENIDORM
Opens containers filled with eggs, oddly	BEGINS
Outcast going back into fresh air apparently	PARIAH
Price of fuel cut	FEE
Quick drink before road trip starts	ALERT
Rowdy players getting plastered	ROUGHCAST
Severe wound identified in A & E	ACUTE
Sickly-looking child's coat	PALETOT
Tabloid journalist coming in right before work	REDTOP
That girl's dazzled … by such illumination?	STARLIGHT
Unhealthy male in grip of unusual malady at last	RHEUMY
Was getting advice about cutting tool	PITSAW
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1125
Clues	Answers
A sure thing, we hear, to declare	ASSERT
Ancient language the French can identify	LATIN
Class invaded by large rook	CASTLE
Compiler’s best friend — Irish, perhaps?	SETTER
Dance doctor held in Rugby area	RUMBA
Disquiet coming from misfortune, as expected	UNEASE
During conflict, duke reveals secret	INWARD
East Ender’s wife from the Low Countries?	DUTCH
Envoy’s time to receive eastern member	DELEGATE
Extension built by woman overlooking river	ANNEXE
Following publicity? It’s a craze	FAD
Gloomy signal from the conductor?	DOWNBEAT
Grid fairly reconstructed for versatile female employee	girl friday
Informer touches down in natural pastures	GRASSLANDS
Irritated, being required to cross lake	NEEDLED
Meal players left unfinished	TEA
Name a club cooked up for hospital transport	AMBULANCE
Presence at function about two hours before midnight?	ATTENDANCE
Put a stop to the main round, ultimately	END
Run away, having originally stolen fish with hesitation	SCARPER
Security device initially tested in US city church	LATCH
Shabby European with rather bad novel	THREADBARE
Start to achieve this writer’s goal	AIM
Vellum produced by knowing fellows in port	PARCHMENT