The Times Cryptic May 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27653
Clues	Answers
Agreeing place for plug on the radio	in sync
An entertaining banker's nickname	AGNOMEN
Bee wings in August flutter	BAT
Big bird, head hidden in fear	TITANIC
Disavowals from radical or a centrist	RETRACTIONS
Display burden on one vehicle	air taxi
Dressed down in the past, Conservative kept out of sight	CHIDDEN
Drive into Split, fencing off some land	rear-end
Dry period quickly over	SEC
Figure's appeal, eating junk	STATUE
Give some relief to setter rejected by editor?	EMBOSS
Historian, no end of social climber	IVY
Make cryptic once out of French	ENCODE
Monarch visiting Skye, perhaps, back in castle	ELSINORE
Online magazine keeps running commercial	ECONOMIC
Outline of waist, flipping round figure	TWO
People following old lady in bleak, poor state	banana republic
Place to learn mawkishness, a thing of legend	UNICORN
Put pins around seat covers tailor's edging	STRADDLE
Risk screening for one key film	the great escape
Roughly treated a cold __ a virus right in a bodily system	CARDIOVASCULAR
Rubbish a true novel writer	LITTERATEUR
Ship's cook?	STEAMER
Stuff in vacuous policy papers is a wonder	PYRAMID
Summon up gripping excerpt of heavenly event	ECLIPTIC
The French forward is wearing old lady's slip	MALAPROPISM
Untidy woman in low bar was first to drink litres	DISHEVELLED
Who and what, say, could produce tergiversation	interrogatives
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1604
Clues	Answers
A bit depressed, having inflammation	WHITLOW
Blossom beginning to fall down	FLOWER
Bung soldier up into position	SPIGOT
Charm of mummy’s bed	MASCOT
Cleaner, one in tears after reprimands	carpet sweeper
Communist rejected by town	DERBY
Dancers lie at first in bed, pectorals rippling	corps de ballet
Given a role, still on the field	in play
Hotel is extraordinarily unfriendly	HOSTILE
Judging is exasperating	TRYING
Large fish seen in Gibraltar pond	TARPON
Leading, and winning by this margin?	AHEAD
Maybe phrase looks wrong on page	PERHAPS
Meat cooking in ovens	VENISON
Not so bad, I’ll wager	BETTER
Opens mouth, but runs out of fruit	GAPES
Packed, to be on the safe side	in case
Party food is cold? Not entirely	DISCO
Pressure by chief barrister presenting case	PLEADER
Son has a nasty argument: he may be suited here	savile row
Stop running and stand in the market	STALL
Such a comic not suitable for sitcom?	stand-up
Tomb’s dreadful curse — help!	SEPULCHRE
University opens a study for poet	AUDEN