The Times Cryptic March 27 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27623
Clues	Answers
American substitute porter, perhaps welcoming group of three visiting	ALTERNATE
Animal in a cell __ a second has been regularly raised	AMOEBA
Banning of former contact	EXCOMMUNICATION
Biscuits or nuts	CRACKERS
Casual chat and drink after work with son	GOSSIP
Clothing caught by épée awfully near point	PERIGEE
Concert one performs vocally is likely to turn out well	PROMISING
Couple, the first on the wagon	TWAIN
Cross at hosts for displaying charm	AMULET
Cutting rotten carcass with it	SARCASTIC
Drink that’s good found in New England area?	NEGUS
Get angry about blasted Margo’s fuss	RIGMAROLE
Getting on? That’s not about getting on	AGEING
Go off former European Union? Nicest on the outside	EXEUNT
Important one goes through papers?	STAPLE
Lions come running; this is the end	SEMICOLON
Location for play people without exception remember	RECALL
Musician with history including activity during the Blitz	HARPIST
Picture latter half of a trip to Santiago?	IMAGE
Second time to give recurring phrase	MOTTO
See new sign of agreement over City	LONDON
Star cricketer, that man Brown?	SUNBATHE
Tied in factories with change leading to a loss of living things	DESERTIFICATION
Trip abroad, oddly to see what Pope wears	TIARA
Turn on again and relax with creative activity	RESTART
Where cars wait __ a road is normal	STANDARD
Where people grow things for sharing	ALLOTMENT
Worry gangster has got in	ANGST
Write numbers in a chain	PENNINES
Writer of plays about a person like Vermeer	PAINTER
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1579
Clues	Answers
About-turn in relation to threat, not hard	RETREAT
Beam: at first surveyor measures its length exactly	SMILE
Derek briefly in charge at German city food shop	DELICATESSEN
Display cereal bowl	BRANDISH
Expanse of land with nice sylvan area originally included __ do business	TRANSACT
First to return this container	POT
Former money court __ vanished	EXTINCT
Game __ hit, we hear, Queen follows	SOCCER
Hit on including good hairstyle	CHIGNON
I tear in to change passivity	INERTIA
Love place to sleep niece arranged in dutifulness	OBEDIENCE
Mock ultimately decadent leisure	TEASE
Musical show after worry gets new ending	CONCERT
Organ’s playing __ a gas!	ARGON
Pal, jazzman, regularly seen in square	PLAZA
Part of engine unaffected by reversal	ROTOR
Phone band	RING
Repeat section of core curriculum	RECUR
Reportedly proper beef, say	MEAT
Second girl for fish	SKATE
Soldier’s brought back mother’s letter from Greece	SIGMA
Stall tags done, free to circulate	drag ones feet
Strengthen Religious Education at home, supporting Church	REINFORCE
Teacher from Michaelmas term	MASTER
Uproar Northern Ireland daughter recalled	DIN
We hear less important parts of pop singles, moreover	BESIDES