The Times Cryptic March 25 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27621
Clues	Answers
Change, once, from half marathon, adopting 2000m?	MARKKA
Device containing spring cabbage maybe left around for rabbit to eat	yale lock
Engineering graduate having rung to order	BESPOKE
Four pairs of volunteers beset by obsessive behaviour	OCTAD
Fourth rate stuff’s bound to appear in US bar	dramshop
Given further term in high school for dances	hakas
Grand, upright character in Catholic circles	HOMERIC
Idiot diverted us 100km across Switzerland	SCHMUCK
In Italy, that eastern river is so long!	CHEERIO
Island previously to get motorway round it	FORMOSA
Large party beat up bouncer dispatched by club	golf ball
Like some cakes set before daughter	LAYERED
Long-distance traveller from Maine sleeping like a baby?	COMET
Mount using clip, closed	PINTO
One makes a packet in one’s field	BALER
Oratory in the case of Churchill hard to copy	CHAPEL
Painter stern after spilling a thinner on the ground	RARER
Panoramic Rome’s historic housing something very fine	MICROMESH
Powerful drive, with spirit: nineteen more needed for century?	LUSTRUM
Prow’s damaged with him?	SHIPWORM
Racket payment from mystified non-competitor you returned	protection money
Round top of trophy, see revolving article	CUPOLA
Ruin song with a short dance sequence	lay waste
Source of flour used to make dough?	cash crop
State of old limo confused with cab	COLOMBIA
Still clutching your right hand or foot	PYRRHIC
Take off from party chasing old nurse	send up
This young camper’s pants nothing but cosy	boy scout
Unreal level of American reserve	STORYBOOK
Work in China shared between us?	our mutual friend
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1577
Clues	Answers
A secondary job working in diesel	SIDELINE
Below NY apartment, see rook or vulture	CONDOR
Bird that’s flown as an experiment	KITE
Burning paper?	SUN
Concerned with omen, stand down	RESIGN
Conditional release of father to attend function	PAROLE
Cringe frightfully, suppressing cry of pain, doing this?	COWERING
Criticise a conurbation for greed	RAPACITY
Cry, going with this colour	HUE
Dog carrying stick around at home	CANINE
Don’t use snooker aid	REST
Elite institutions that beast can cross?	OXBRIDGE
Fly back out of Katanga	GNAT
From part of hospital, bore off set of clothes	WARDROBE
It’s something to run a temperature: no harm moving around outside	MARATHON
Love this statue? Turning angry	EROS
Pale daughter’s magic accessory	WAND
Part of winter nasty for bird	TERN
Pulsing laser, top guide at night	pole star
Rain heavily as hunting party turning up	TEEM
Running around, the rat is a danger	THREAT
Sort of group that gets under your skin?	SPLINTER
Strong, but run over and broken	ROBUST
Swelling, be very angry	BOIL
The shape of American defence?	PENTAGON
Time-saving tip that’s not so hairy?	short cut