The Times Cryptic February 24 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27595
Clues	Answers
A rating, as it turns out, one born late in the year	SAGITTARIAN
Agitate about rider’s first piece of tack	STIRRUP
Altercation in bank?	ROW
Blunder made by English kings	ERR
Blunt old PM collecting key cake ingredient	candied peel
City overwhelmed by Conservative member’s vice	CLAMP
Contrite theatre worker touring hospital department	REPENTANT
Do gymnastics, taken in by pathetic spoilsport	party pooper
Endless delay regularly besetting seabird by lake	ETERNAL
Famous lad with energy for exercising	LEGENDARY
Fantasist reportedly confined and mollified	mitigated
Fattened fowl a gang leader left unfinished	CAPON
Fish touristy restaurants originally included in meal?	TETRA
Greek poet’s house overlooking sea at Boulogne	HOMER
Lacking will to reject place in fashionable gallery?	INTESTATE
Last aria Rameau finally composed for land down under	AUSTRALIA
Leave university with a revolutionary painting technique	GOUACHE
Lethal serpents a reclusive saint chances heading off	BASILISKS
Lives with girl? That’s the problem!	ISSUE
Particle identified by Greek character, an Athenian demagogue	NUCLEON
Preacher entertaining northern duke with beer and cheese	WENSLEYDALE
Preserve sheep brought back by young chap in West	MARMALADE
Relish time supporting America in game	GUSTO
Russian writer’s means to get rid of old model	TOLSTOY
Shark that’s spotted female is hot on trail	DOGFISH
Single doctor in US city, one opposing local development	NIMBY
Small farmer more frequently pursuing credit	CROFTER
Travel agency giving shelter to a crested African bird	TOURACO
Two chaps providing capital cover in Kyle of Localsh?	GLENGARRY
Went in front, having source of light	LED
Woman abandoning horse in compound	ESTER
Work for press, taking public transport to north	SUB
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1555
Clues	Answers
Average doctor about to hold round	MEDIOCRE
Can spare transplanted organ	PANCREAS
Carries on making profit	PROCEEDS
College poem: it contains everything	UNIVERSE
County’s crop meeting obstacle	CORNWALL
Devotee regularly in cult	NUT
Elder for one right to fetch round support of course	TREE
Encouraging firm cutting	COAXING
Engaged, made speech in favour	spoken for
Harp playing adopted by one daughter, left by herself?	ORPHANED
Has pity, locking away poisoner	ASP
I tend to think about northern childhood	INFANCY
Initially confused by poem in secret language	CODE
Lion comes skidding to less than a full stop	SEMICOLON
Modest about page as material for newspaper	COPY
Park always admitting one radio	RECEIVER
Pickpocket to go down briefly	DIP
Pressure on recount for dignitary	PRELATE
Publication free of tax is a draw	MAGNET
Raise stone in front of the plane	COCKPIT
Sanction a very quiet wander	APPROVE
Spat, receiving a plumber’s latest list of charges	TARIFF
The basics of educating a trio of Republicans	three rs
Word often accompanying name for cage	PEN
Wrote music that’s not frantic	COMPOSED
Yankee on Wednesday returned, in early morning, damp?	DEWY