The Times Cryptic February 21 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27593
Clues	Answers
A Somalia boy, not so backward, finding top monk	Dalai Lama
After prayer, golden couples bury small trinkets	collectors items
Alarm concerning being in the wrong	SIREN
Banter from winger that’s not kept in check	CHAFF
Cook rarely grasps ladies' fingers	OKRA
Disgrace one left out of popular family	INFAMY
Dismiss expert screening river fun run	sack race
Do the twist with ample cups in view, nearly	EDDY
Doctor to reuse missing English vehicle	MOTORCYCLE
Film director with a good score when shooting	WINNER
Fine extension: hide collapsed floor	FELL
Free European travel	RIDE
Guinea coin smuggled into football club	FRANC
Make aluminium ball	FORMAL
Naive commercial about large plastic tube	RAWLPLUG
Nasty smell when oxygen is inhaled — it's lethal	poison gas
Nearly all these can be set in just under the counter	on the sly
NHS residents age after surgery for eye complaint	near-sightedness
Nice article found in pair of lines? Just kidding	RAILLERY
Old letter S	OGEE
Plump for ripping new option: MBE!	EMBONPOINT
Result of cutting about Greek pair raised by Henry?	REGROWTH
Rhode Island firm, tricked out of article, bounced back	RICOCHETED
Right line taken in winning point of quarrel	ARROWHEAD
School lets us row	TUSSLE
Second person supported by new agent and boyfriend	young man
This writer's adopting old airline's screen symbol	i-beam
Traditional notes of musk oil mixed in case of fabric	folk music
View Pluto rising close to Neptune	SIDE
Waste removal expert put gallons in brown car	dung beetle
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1554
Clues	Answers
At work, Sue, Ned and Edward like some grapes?	UNSEEDED
Curious, like returning top-class Japanese fighter once	SAMURAI
Experimental type of music regenerated wife on avenue	new wave
Extra mushroom left out	MORE
Former slapstick comic scattered ants on bay tree	Stan Laurel
Half suck garish sweet substance	SUGAR
I'm off food completely	FAREWELL
Idiot wearing jacket with sleeves missing	JERKIN
In French earth, duke is buried	INTERRED
In Piedmont, her uncle's trying to avoid capture	on the run
It’s a strange sort of wine	ASTI
Mum, on air, drunk on unknown wine	SHIRAZ
Musical composer left note inside organ	ELGAR
One of five children initially offered a substitute for rice?	QUINOA
Reportedly, those people in that place	THERE
Rodent the rams disturbed	HAMSTER
Rosy person who photographs Atlantic foodfish	red snapper
Smart alec in work now allegedly	know-all
Sound of dove above quiet animal enclosure	COOP
Travel pioneer, one who doubted worker in galley?	thomas cook
Underworld slang broadcast absorbing European ruffian on bike	hells angel
Vegetable pulled up, with energy, somewhere in Staffordshire	KEELE
Wart uncovered in feline voicebox	LARYNX
Wicket in children's game is part of branch	TWIG