The Times - Cryptic - January 7 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27554
Clues	Answers
Attachment of a sheet enclosing pound note	APPENDAGE
Bird edges round cake crumb	PIECE
Caught bird by head, being a chicken?	cravenness
Chap after small snack	SARNIE
Chap taking risks mostly on mountain ridge’s eastern tongue	mandarin chinese
Decree agreement has no power	ACT
Force confronted over drink	DECAFF
Fun codes perplexed and puzzled	CONFUSED
Lace still vino, putting in tons	INTERTWINE
Lead potentially has eider and gannet suffering	TRAGEDIENNE
Man resounds with stirring operatic aria	Nessun Dorma
Married before once, and no more than	MERE
Mexican music from aria: Chinese, partly	MARIACHI
Model takes chance regularly for good ability to get results	EFFICACY
Near agreement, backing a last drink	NIGHTCAP
Not skilled in creation, missing out the third day	UNVERSED
Note switches in random mutation?	CHANGE
One working too hard pulls back	SWOT
Passable old writer	OPEN
Place for first flowers presumably is in March	PARADISE
PM’s left without fellow ministers’ support, ultimately	GLADSTONE
Puts rumpled sheets away from mouth	UPSTREAM
Scrap what could be The Times inside page	ENDPAPER
Socialist’s gutted over widespread conflict	STRIFE
State of Slovenia mired in revolution, somewhat	MAINE
Suitable form of high-speed transport	APT
View article and be very angry	SEETHE
Water-loving youngster __ small seal, reportedly	CYGNET
Wettish mark in person’s home comes back	DAMP
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1521
Clues	Answers
A model pops up for fabulist	AESOP
Ancient city crossed by ninety-nine vehicles	NINEVEH
Awfully sloppy replies the start of a dangerous decline	slippery slope
Become crazy, having turn with fruit	go bananas
Bring up millions and prepare for war	REARM
Bullets a millimetre round	AMMO
Direction from town, or thereabouts	NORTH
Fruit-tree thus gripped by curse	DAMSON
Insect wasn’t loud?	WASP
It gets one’s writing to flow?	INK
Loving Conservative confession?	AMATORY
Making pencil unusable is the last straw	breaking point
Needlewoman holding end of thick pin	SKEWER
Ooze across back of barrel and drop off	SLEEP
Prosecutor with impassive face, a silk	DAMASK
Reversible canoe	KAYAK
River creature is warmer, but not at first	OTTER
Sound reasonable, disguising a meekness	make sense
Syrup army doctor’s given girls	MOLASSES
Take a risk on unknown woodland plant	BETONY
Tree chap’s seen in front of spinney	MANGROVE
Untreated wood a poor bargain	raw deal
What may be blue in South Kentucky	SKY
Wise-guy king has no protective barrier	know-all