The Times - Cryptic May 26 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1621
Clues	Answers
Absence of marines is what one expects	NORM
Against having trip __ something seen on map?	CONTOUR
At risk, prior to a breakthrough?	on thin ice
Bird in kangaroo's territory	ROOSTER
Boy or girl I love? One may be just outside the house	PATIO
Bug in fleece carried by rodents	MICROBE
Chaps score in terms of intellect	MENTALLY
Cleaner goes round everything in dance hall	BALLROOM
Composer taking taxi back to hotel	BACH
Criticise Greek god	PAN
Criticises a government charge in speech	ATTACKS
Crowd restricted by fresh order	HORDE
Crude and hearty, husband taking new position	EARTHY
Good shower? It may swell growth of this	GRAIN
Grovels so awkwardly in attempt to cover up	gloss over
Heavenly body shown by the first person getting into bed	COMET
Identified little man hugging a maiden	NAMED
Landed outside Channel Islands according to legal requirements	LICIT
Love divine is out of the ordinary	ODD
Loving a party circle	ADORING
New alliance, critical, not half, opposing ministers?	ANTICLERICAL
Plague in soldier's home country, not unknown	BLIGHT
Provide feline companion for Queen	CATER
Study of outer space that could be made from cosy starship	ASTROPHYSICS
Time to get insect, strange pet	TANTRUM
Undergarment on a goddess	VESTA
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27674
Clues	Answers
A glass object allowing some light in?	AJAR
Animal wife evidently caught?	NEWT
Athlete is snubbed by this competitor	THROWER
Book half of rabble, as lawman	SHERIFF
Brewer falsifying report about drink	PERCOLATOR
Charge again, or deal's off	RELOAD
Delicate creature, get down dog!	SWALLOWTAIL
Disappointed only wine available at party then? Daughter going in!	cheesed off
Fish cutting back, powerfully	PILCHARD
For example, rose water, perhaps?	FLOWER
He’s perhaps right, intellectual artist leaning to the left?	rare gas
Impressing me, country reversed rule	REGIMEN
Item climber starting off over slope has on for support?	CRAMPON
Killers opening drink a little backward	PISTOLS
Line in opera beginning to drift went this way and that	SLALOMED
Mammal eating mammal, a cold dish	CASSATA
Modify it with a relevant option	ALTERNATIVE
Native American quickly burying head in hands	APACHE
Odd bits dropping off kitchen freezer?	ICE
Old commander, on another occasion, dropping in	AGA
Opening left for sailors	PORT
Pin on	LEG
Problem with failing, one's fragile	tea service
Prunes served up, that man in high spirits	SERAPHIM
Right about costume	REDRESS
Sash of brown, indigo tops	OBI
Sign a certain captain has turned up	OMEN
Start putting on clothes for sport	SHOWJUMPING
Sweet, own scent	AFTERSHAVE
Veteran comatose as one drags chains in	SEASONED
What almost destroyed west London district	WALTHAMSTOW
Yours truly, a snooty type, reviewed Japanese art	BONSAI