The Times - Cryptic - December 30 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1515
Clues	Answers
A protege’s recognition of distinguished service	AWARD
At home, permitted to see bay	INLET
Brown’s undertaking involving king’s broadcast	TRANSMISSION
Certain to be in tears breaking up valuables	TREASURES
Cook too much, having finished party?	OVERDO
Country game with good person in charge	RUSTIC
Covetousness of emissary lacking nothing	ENVY
Crackpot’s proceedings against teachers?	NUTCASE
Detached ruins scattered around US city	INSULAR
Doorman brought up rubbish after New Year’s Day	JANITOR
Flavouring substance in vehicle, one everybody rejected	VANILLA
For example, the Earl of Emsworth’s equal?	PEER
Free time in university __ Edinburgh, principally	UNTIE
Grassy area providing shelter, by the sound of it	LEA
High-spirited relative in borders of Jersey	JAUNTY
Indignation that’s not in fashion?	OUTRAGE
Metallic element unknown in China’s capital	ZINC
Pay for high-backed bench	SETTLE
Pugnacity of a gang going round Oxford, originally	AGGRO
Run round hard pebbles on beach	SHINGLE
Supporter employed in theatre as elocutionist	EASEL
Tenacity of agent upset over separation	PERSEVERANCE
Terrible-sounding person changing colour of cloth?	DYER
Weapon in new condition in plant	SPEARMINT
Woman abandoned by son, a heavyweight boxer once	ALI
Woman about to receive priest	CELIA
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27547
Clues	Answers
A couple of lines crossing everywhere	all over
Aspic possibly combined with pepper	CAPSICUM
Bear children and be disagreeable	take issue
Beatle's back in USSR, playing tricks	RUSES
Begin to deal with notice on deck	ADDRESS
Break out with Toad's means of locomotion	SKATEBOARD
Busts are terribly hard to grasp	ABSTRUSE
Check a Buddhist at regular intervals	AUDIT
Conclusion about county, not quite approved	ENDORSED
Emperor, short and fat, mostly as a figurehead	TITULAR
Gesture saving ground with a shed	v-sign
Head, bowled out in past times	ONCE
In airport goddess replaces old Christian	LUTHERAN
Introduce American drug, ignoring blood group	usher in
Letters from schoolmaster never enforcing discipline	STERN
Lug in that case of clay	EARTHEN
No fewer than fifty each in a test (not English)	at least
Obstinate person endlessly holding a hammer	MAUL
One male voice giving nothing away	IMPASSIVE
Pray with heart not with head, returning thanks	ENTREAT
Producer of keys? Not for Ghanaians	ASHANTI
Singular cup-bearer with vacant expression still here?	SHEBEEN
Son embraced by saint	SWITHIN
Stand for show again?	REPRESENT
Stop outside or go	RESORT
Strong feeling about large person fastening flies?	ANGLER
Tea from northbound service area	ASSAM
That is how to move a trailer	To wit
Tool displays more wings for aircrew	scroll saw
Treatment of savant by university	USAGE
Trifling child	MINOR
Worker occasionally draws injured people	CASUALTIES