The Times - Cryptic - January 3 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1519
Clues	Answers
A lot of blood over area surrounding sick animal	GORILLA
Arrived ahead of artist, producer of pictures	CAMERA
Carried round island in the Pacific	BORNEO
Celebrity, last in event to jump	START
Declare invalid's wife released from old London gaol	NEGATE
Dodgy two-star, taking the most pessimistic view	at worst
English sailor hurried over to tell the story	NARRATE
Flog wood	BIRCH
Genre of film associated with boldness in a war zone	western front
Hospital teas prepared in great speed	HASTE
In Medina, tales of birth	NATAL
Long tale about Melibee, ultimately	YEARN
Nobleman entering New York? Just about	NEARLY
Noisy mob, heading off before end of rally	ROWDY
Picture that is enthralling the old lady, first in guidebook	IMAGE
Plug clothes in speech	ADDRESS
Produced German wine entertaining one unmarried French girl	MADEMOISELLE
Russian leader travelling in style	YELTSIN
Second, perhaps, to have spoken about loud noise	ORDINAL
Stealing floats, they say? Scapegoats found	whipping boys
Stylish member in neat pants	ELEGANT
Tear off to collect ten more	EXTRA
Unforeseen difficulty in mine before collapse	PITFALL
We lament goal scrambled in college match	eton wall game
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27551
Clues	Answers
25 pound includes charges for returning minute new handle?	PSEUDONYM
A function that begins explanation informally?	COS
Board’s strategy number eleven?	PLANK
Bound dictionary with half-ruined contents	OBLIGED
Contribution towards ultra-cheap passage	TRACHEA
Correct interpretation of noon?	AMEND
Differ over making unlimited contribution to sad song	DIVERGE
First Buddhist artist to capture a creature, reportedly	Dalai Lama
Girls gee you up flagrantly	EGREGIOUSLY
Gossiping fool with zero vitality	shmoozing
Kind husband has brooded about one coming down on the head at Eton once?	silk hat
King Edward fencing short, timid eastern ruler	EMEER
Loot regularly hidden by idiot Egyptian resident?	NILOT
Lug case left by old president	shell-like
Minor issue not admitted during working hours	latchkey kid
Mum has to dress up some gloomy youth?	GOTHS
Musical gear having trouble within a short radius?	BRIGADOON
Old coins from revolutionary republic found in improvised explosive device	DENARII
On which knives may be drawn in both Lancashire and Yorkshire?	CHEESEBOARD
Persistent girl stuffing shelled crustacean	OBSTINATE
Pooh’s chum moving his tail down	LOW
Poor Muslim is on diesel — hospital needed	DERVISH
Port or beer in school dance with a twist at the end	PALERMO
Promote lie when spinning large media illusion	trompe-loeil
Pulse of boy after being knocked over	DAL
Regulars in shore leave getting blotto in port	Le Havre
Secret initially suppressed in public	OVERT
Senior Cockney grabbed that girl	ELDER
Servants in attendance extremely upset, as behind procedure?	ENEMA
Tory hard-liner is dirty, having lost it after split	DRY
Upped sticks in ground by unopened house	EMIGRATED
War paint certainly used in English borders — a form of woad	eye shadow