The Times - Cryptic - February 18 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27590
Clues	Answers
Alarming disguise of Romeo in illustration hard to grasp	fright wig
Article left on stage following act?	LEGAL
Attraction of tune to play standing up around piano	HONEYPOT
Author and setter back on course, we hear?	WRITER
Came to wonder about sanction	AWOKE
Come by bearing request for seal	GASKET
Does nothing with papers in case, in short	IDLES
Eliminate in heats, and round following	get shot of
Extremely fashionable viewed in mirror, almost entirely	every inch
Fraud by French department supplying starter course	CONSOMME
Imprisoned, shedding kilo, European becomes lean	INCLINE
Irish writer born Indian	SHAWNEE
Is VAT clerk especially green on transport?	travel-sick
Nonconformist to pour scorn on record	DISSENTER
Old men part with a set of books? Outrageous!	EXORBITANT
One potentially continental desert crossing close to April	QUILT
One who’d bring news of row about personal credit	town crier
Poet’s flanked by escort: we encounter hosts	TWEEN
Reinforced using stone once before, strong all round	BOLSTERED
Shock answer Northerner returned	APPAL
Single out that’s groundbreaking?	PICK
Something in the roof unsettled me: ie bat	tie beam
Steer front of boat in lake	OXBOW
Stick fiddle alongside old composer	RODRIGO
Tip trailer: a bad habit	ADVICE
Vehicle entering area delayed as course not set?	a la carte
Very old squad I assembled for picture	quo vadis
Views __ unusual to find them indoors?	WIVES
Vile, heartless way maybe worker grassed	VERDANT
Where, finally, crofter on Skye moved?	ORKNEYS
With Jack poorly she appears?	JILL
With knife at last, girl cut cake	ECLAIR
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1551
Clues	Answers
A lonely OAP got involved in branch of earth science	PALAEONTOLOGY
A Parisian leading a hundred crazy males in America	Uncle Sam
A word of warning __ daughter has very negative emotion	DANGER
Academic class remains unruly	SEMINAR
Appeal to Desmond, offering some poetry	ODES
Being identified, somehow hide in disgust	DISTINGUISHED
Big US gangster bringing death	FATAL
Come to the throne maybe and do well	SUCCEED
First-class introduction to rousing song	AIR
Go round as headless comic	ROLL
Greek character, very loud, having shown the way, is to be toned down	MUFFLED
I hate that element of roughness!	UGH
Lord too soon meeting premature end	EARL
One in mad cult troubles about certain religious writings	TALMUDIC
One toils, getting badly treated __ it's most stupid	LOONIEST
Pack bits and bobs?	STUFF
Refuse to walk endlessly	MARC
Section of good chaps getting put outside	SEGMENT
Some like June and Maureen having short time in health organisation	MONTHS
Somehow got influence, bending the knee	GENUFLECTION
Stress English politician possesses __ one collapses finally	EMPHASIS
Times with hold-ups putting the Spanish off	DAYS
TV doctor with a call for restraint	WHOA
Under new management, a farm is for e.g. producing dairy product	Fromage frais