The Times Cryptic March 24 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27620
Clues	Answers
Card player leaving feast cut turkey	FLOP
Defence from fighter boxing in the same place	ALIBI
Design ready with a pattern of lines	RAYED
Drive round with zero speed	OOMPH
Endow with another look up or down?	REPAPER
Family broadcaster's screening with artist	KANDINSKY
Foreign ruler hosts small function for composer	ROSSINI
Frantic person doing marketing?	HYPER
General place to study poems cut by a line	UNIVERSAL
Grass weeding tool picked up? Oh well	heigh-ho
In flipping list, police showing flasher in road	INDICATOR
Let water out of both taps spread in Texas, say	RANCH
Like the Blues song set to succeed	on the right track
Malicious person sticking to soft drinks in bar	CATTY
Mavis lost time with her fooling around	THROSTLE
Maybe like the living dead in a ring, with axes not very sharp	oxymoronic
Maybe rubber tree on which English females perched	EFFACER
Not giving away shilling in commercial areas	hoardings
One who's near water abroad saving lives	MISER
President's vow in ceremony for everyone	POMPIDOU
Question on puzzles providing entertainment	FLOORSHOW
Rancid meat, a smaller piece thereof	OFFCUT
Rough, jovial husband appearing late	EARTHY
Slight pains: sore bum	ASPERSION
Soon desert old lover	INAMORATO
Spring to one's feet, in case of arm being fat	well-upholstered
Tango's rejected by toy boy	EDDY
The writer's using short pens for statement	TESTIMONY
They suffer informal and formal attire	CASUALTIES
With year out, struggling player's form drops	PEARL
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1576
Clues	Answers
A huge amount of sticky stuff: precious commodity, mostly	GOOGOL
A lot of money understandably can help at first	MUCH
A paper, it’s said, that may get someone’s blessing?	ATISHOO
Binge over, guy must purge insides	ORGY
Boy is good artist and bad actor	GRAHAM
Conservative pinching man’s idea	THEORY
Converted triremes: most jolly!	MERRIEST
Envy festive, exotic figure	seventy-five
Fiddlestick that is used by rock star	BOWIE
Hammers backing you to become England football manager	RAMSEY
Husband following Women’s Institute’s fancy	WISH
Idiot grabbing first of poisonous snakes	ASPS
Intention to keep South West afloat	ASWIM
Middle-Easterner, most sickly looking, at home with Scotsman?	PALESTINIAN
Might war prisoner, perhaps, when meeting the queen?	POWER
Not in favour of August, on reflection, in Caribbean location	ANTIGUA
One or two, for example, less feeling	NUMBER
Pained expression when cutting very short ticket	VOUCHER
Person who drags loom	TOWER
Politician I call, after uniform for referee’s job	UMPIRING
Substantially increase level __ put cork back, partially	OCTUPLE
Switch positions occasionally	on and off
Try air shot: you don’t often see that!	RARITY
Two XVs in need of a drink with seconds to go	THIRTY
Van to deliver greener sort of petrol	lead-free
Wobble from person summing up?	TOTTER