The Times Cryptic February 19 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27591
Clues	Answers
Block of limestone pavement, stone, cold for feet, initially	CLINT
Conflict interrupting river crossing in advance	FORWARD
Cooking, unless entertaining a voluptuary	SENSUAL
Crazy old king’s losing his head	NUTS
Cunningly hide a Saint getting out of strip	DISSEMBLE
Cutting back, setting cost for policeman? Not right	coppicing
Devil of a politician leading awful sheepish lot	MEPHISTOPHELES
Fish set before queen	GROUPER
French wetlands with no river to maintain	ARGUE
Good making up numbers for basic training	GROUNDING
Hard to falsify passport?	RIGID
In the wings before minute’s warning?	ALARM
In vulnerable situation, ox shifted with speed	EXPOSED
Influence of one million crowd	IMPRESS
Labour’s forced here to trail behind grand upper class	GULAG
Lay academic again cancels start of work	PROFANE
Leave university with debt halved __ blessed state	BEATITUDE
Make madder and nettle perfume	INCENSE
Persistently asks for money __ daft in Scots location	DUNSINANE
PM to ring Kabul warlord perhaps forsaking force	CALLAGHAN
Police station is turned over	STASI
Put out without a note as second-hand	USED
Running mate made Republican top candidates	dream team
Scots head key large mountain university in Europe	HEIDELBERG
Shame piano’s fallen off platform	ODIUM
Short time off to stay at home for painter	HOLBEIN
Soldier allowed padded clothing	GILET
Two refusals before thinking it’s not working	NONOPERATIONAL
Wild child is kid getting a cake	RAGAMUFFIN
Work hard on record that is broken by learner crossword fanatic?	LOGOPHILE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1552
Clues	Answers
A duke at this place gets stick	ADHERE
A surreptitious kiss outside before social activity in an Alpine resort?	apres-ski
Bottle-washer's corpse found by hounds	DOGSBODY
Breaking down, colonel prior to oversight	COLLAPSE
Cut off tail of pollack, food fish served up	DOCK
Daughter wearing five rings, rings for witchcraft	VOODOO
Deceive gangster and win a thousand	HOODWINK
Exploit of female put away	FEAT
Extremely popular digging tools	in spades
Fell backwards in lounge, perhaps	ROOM
Foremost of hunted fish in list	HEEL
Head of some outfit in satirical sketch	SKIT
Illustrations vividly described by son	GRAPHICS
In a hotel shown in large book	at home
Kind offer	TENDER
Make a mistake, ending in mate by bishop	ERR
More confident bachelor, more mature	BOLDER
Nothing left in well?	all right
One new pal is patient	INMATE
Raised platform said to need adjustment	DAIS
Rousing prison group	STIRRING
Silly to repeat a work by Gilbert and Sullivan, maybe	OPERETTA
Spent freely, reportedly, being depressed	BLUE
Tea taken with candid member of the clergy	CHAPLAIN
The man holding old gardening implement	HOE
Toy dog briefly left by lake	DOLL