The Times Cryptic March 4 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27603
Clues	Answers
A huge order for ships	AVAST
A tentative lover's foolish ranking of preferences	alternative vote
A wild animal died, being trained?	ABOARD
After stretch on couch, priest full of energy for flock	birds of a feather
Aggressive and fierce __ any shocked?	in-yer-face
American people who have time for the Oscars?	OSAGE
Change round hour and position indicator	ALTIMETER
Clapped-out drier beginning to erode on the bottom	DERRIERE
Craft needing personal attention, you understand?	PRIVATEER
Delight, as it were, as rescue vessel breaks through earth	DARKEN
Dredger expected river to be full of stone	DUSTER
Go to pieces, some by Spanish composer	fall apart
Good on minister, shortly leaving the board	DIVING
He grovels now as duke is coming down	TOADY
Humbug attracting endless reverence? That's a laugh	GUFFAW
In elevated post, it's late in the day to tuck into some breakfast	TOPMAST
Jointly decide to get me off inadequate drug	AGREE
Old beast I noticed that could be heard on the way	STEGOSAUR
One bird eaten by another one	HERON
One book stolen from church: worker suspended	ABEYANT
Preserve old pot in felt backing	extra jam
Scottish footballers once with demand for unrestrained expenditure	SPLURGE
Short of money on these drugs	UPPERS
Short skirt that's taken in very loud yellow	SAFFRON
Sort of pin you find in numbers?	SAFETY
Succeeded in a resolution of ancient case	INSTANCE
Very experienced drunk	SOUSED
Wartime saboteurs receiving medal for battle	SOMME
Waste last of the burger (big one!) I was consuming	EMACIATE
What about increased charges for running water?	EUPHRATES
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1562
Clues	Answers
A pigeon for a poet?	HOMER
Aggressively male chairman embracing companion	MACHO
Arrest of chap from Prague announced	CHECK
Article on a criminal is cut	LACERATION
Bathrobe serving to conceal fat?	OBESE
Be responsible for poetry in Old English	OVERSEE
Boring nun made to dance	MUNDANE
Bossy young girl running up and down	MADAM
Coach fixing the race?	TEACHER
Consent to old beast of burden turning back	OKAY
Conservative type, as queen's husband is?	CONSORT
Die, as one with laryngitis might?	CROAK
Duke Ellington exposes bottom	KEEL
English tutors somehow getting fatter	STOUTER
Half of tour party making a fuss	to-do
I hear it's possibly the most dangerous	HAIRIEST
Kidnapped a British editor on Tube	ABDUCTED
Model office worker keeping you waiting?	TEMPLATE
Oddly edgy on ship's departure	EGRESS
One running out of clothes?	STREAKER
Sit back, holding ambassador's paper	THESIS
There's no getting around it __ I'm old-fashioned	IMPASSE
Two chaps having a laugh?	he-he
Unapproachable station controller?	REMOTE
Where koala may be in a bit of bother?	up a gum tree
Where to find cobbler in the end?	at last