The Times Cryptic May 4 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27655
Clues	Answers
Almost dead, one inspiring start of recovery: it’s on the line	NUMERATOR
An appropriate cry of delight, seafood turning up — here?	BARCELONA
Angry son joined forces	steamed up
Artless wife mooching around in loafers	WASTRELS
As simpleton, face attack	MUG
Avert corrosion in submarine, large	UNDERSEAL
Bachelor party I held in our room	BOUDOIR
Beg aloud for something to eat	PREY
Can anyone set about creating nuisance?	ANNOYANCE
Cannot demur, getting to change order	COUNTERMAND
Communion the very thing, trapped by disease supposedly	LITURGY
Conclude it’s worse to leave port	INFER
Credit card at last found in market returned	KUDOS
Draws more doubtfully in direction of the Catholic faith	romewards
Endured one wind from the north, not a second	BORE
In a Sinatra song, the same Scots stars	milky way
Keen follower has to change round books	VOTARY
Live amid twice as much furniture	double bed
One’s charged right away from press	ION
Plant secretion extremely rare? Wrong	RESIN
Preferred Lycra trimmed in colourful fashion	REDLY
Put with confidence in hospital department, deteriorate	ENTRUST
Regardless of small mine in river	DESPITE
Rejected Britain: serve one foreigner	KUWAITI
Secure like you and me, taking flight with him?	PEGASUS
Some weeks after the start, I get busy	on the go
Tick off pair I put in detention	REPRIMAND
Touchy follower has run in unhindered	FREELY
Traveller told tales, then came back	REPLIED
Tree cover perhaps said to generate correspondence	LIKEN
Very obviously calling, and loud always initially?	VOCAL
Water supply may be sickener: alternative one seen	fluoridated
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1605
Clues	Answers
After leader’s changed, feels anxiety about approaches	NEARS
Bachelor, thorough, gets trophy for plant	BUTTERCUP
Behind mountains, intended, we hear, to form new organisation	REARRANGEMENT
Bring up commendation, but not initially	RAISE
Chief, playfully mischievous	ARCH
Conservative referring to party’s belief set	CREDO
Coy about drink with Lieutenant, cunning	STEALTHY
Criticise long dash	PANACHE
Cut the Spanish metal	NICKEL
Dance can go wrong	CONGA
Decrease in finance: stop filming	CUT
Drink at first for playwright	DRAMATIST
Finding record old? Extremely	DISCOVERY
From Idaho, tidings recently announced	HOT
It punished old Roman, just short of ten stories for listeners	cat-o-nine-tails
Married lady treated in absurd way	MADLY
On internet it helps to find reserve currency of past	BOOKMARK
One adapting to surroundings of clean home, transformed	CHAMELEON
Outlaw born with exactly what’s needed	BANDIT
Part of prayer? Yes	AYE
Popular old routine? Not accurate	INEXACT
Trial match	TEST
Unexpectedly heard about editor’s girl with distinctive hair?	REDHEAD
Unfashionable job in faraway place	OUTPOST
Wood, European, thin	EBONY
Young child’s drink	TOT