The Times Cryptic April 20 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27643
Clues	Answers
An enhancing drug for heavenly body	ASTEROID
Around x-ray, notice strange energy concentration	EXCITON
Attention to detail of former head about individual performance	EXACTNESS
Baseball player’s casual two-piece outfit?	SHORTSTOP
Butterfly with legs on top? The ultimate in ‘strange’	inverted comma
Changing euro next, as foreign	EXTRANEOUS
Chap’s dropping masculine woman	ADA
Crew name tug crudely?	MANHANDLE
Driven to shaking after naughty child’s thoughtless	IMPROVIDENT
Film old relative during journey on horseback	Rio Grande
Fortuitous to get Oscar for a Western	OCCIDENTAL
Go round quickly and tack, going to south	SPIN
Gooey stuff coming from small tree	SLIME
Lack of harmony is very new in music for disco	DISSONANCE
Machine for turning cast figure on coin	CENTRIFUGE
Magistrate’s heartless act that is dishonest	DOGE
Member on board gives in, then oddly persists	BOWSPRIT
Organ is present from Cockney, we’re told	EAR
Police student about reported money owed	CADET
Rank suspicion about cheap stuff	STATUS
Reject some love tokens	VETO
Replenish beer that’s drunk? Disgraceful	REPREHENSIBLE
See eastern star rising __ or planet	VENUS
Slander a duke during armistice	TRADUCE
Stick together stuff in cutting semi-precious stone	agglutinate
Swimmer wasting time over process of getting better	REHAB
Tons in arrears regularly __ affording such jewellery?	TIARAS
Treat prince having swallowed ecstasy	HEAL
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1595
Clues	Answers
Backing students, a mistake	slip-up
Biblical character, drawn endlessly	EVE
Charlie spots accident	CRASH
Cloth in river at Berwick	TWEED
Dart in dartboard, a shocker	DASH
Decoy, small, speaking with rough voice we hear	stalking-horse
Derisive remark about prosperous gem dealer	JEWELLER
Disturb canary, unfortunately, where it's protected?	bird sanctuary
Finally asks a male graduate for a dance	SAMBA
First of mannequins wearing superb top	ACME
Fling? Witness pair inside	SPREE
Get away at one in punt	beat it
Information supplied by American group	GENUS
Joined female taken advantage of	FUSED
Knight on silver horse	NAG
Man behaving dishonourably __ Conservative, notice	CAD
Naval officer, mostly commendable, book omitted	ADMIRAL
Old friend causing impasse	STALEMATE
One holding the purse strings in power may, somehow, by changing rates	PAYMASTER
Person showing no emotion, caught getting on after nicking francs	cold fish
Police officer in Cape, working with firm	CONSTABLE
Predictable way of life, in truth	RUT
Sauce boat raised	KETCHUP
Single out hard school subject	ENGLISH
Victor perplexed coroner entertaining question on uniform	CONQUEROR
You and I filling awfully large trousers?	LEGWEAR