The Times Cryptic May 6 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27657
Clues	Answers
5 dads drink	pass up
A ship, eg, circles different parts of our canals	OESOPHAGI
Almost the perfect place for a fling	HEAVE
Appropriate header concealed from user adopting online search?	SEQUESTER
Auntie half-heartedly backed naval officer making music	BEBOP
Band at funeral threw a wobbly	WREATH
Compounds charged in red light district?	TARTRATES
Count, maybe low, swollen by one	BASIE
Crossword setter, maybe, having to receive gold medal	WORDSMITH
Demanding second book	HARDBACK
Drawing, a large Lowry, perhaps Irish remarkably	all square
Fish from can to cook, recently gutted	john dory
Imposing spell of tyranny after cutbacks	LOFTY
Indoors, surprisingly, could be damper	SORDINO
Item of property as result of gossip changing hands	CHATTEL
Leave sometime, not fast	EXEAT
Occasions for choosing before once between judge and new attorney	REFERENDA
Particles of dry grass crossing a river beneath mountain	alpha ray
Personnel one has included in Solicitor at Law’s contract	SHRIVEL
Pieces, all the same length, needed for decongestant	MENTHOL
Potentially miss appeal appearing in paper	SUSAN
Practise children’s game with energy and fondness	DOTAGE
Purchaser’s place to keep stock of audition	BUYER
Record hosts fail to keep to	CLOSED
Refrain from having key cut	ESCHEW
Sailors at ball drink up	ABSORB
Step from carriage on way through town	STAIR
Still a sort of fat found in fried bread	HUSHPUPPY
The rest of the players could make them fail	half-time
To live without you close for so long!	bye-bye
Try present with one label round	give it a go
Twice a year, wife brings fruit	PAWPAW
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1607
Clues	Answers
A bit of welding up is not working	IDLE
Bric-a-brac mostly running wild	BARBARIC
Colour of bad part of egg	off-white
Come back again to harvest fruit	REAPPEAR
Difficult predicament I missed in disease of sheep	SCRAPE
Element unknown in carbon	ZINC
Energetic person in sack dance	FIREBALL
English word for something initially like paint	ENAMEL
Expected level is cut endlessly	PAR
Find a new supplier for stock	RESOURCE
Forfeits regularly encountered worry constantly	FRET
Home for hermit in Home Counties — like Hades	SEASHELL
I defame Manxman, perhaps	ISLANDER
Key picture is very impressive	EPIC
Most successful, getting shilling in wager	BEST
Part of ulcer is extremely red	CERISE
Patronising Spanish fizz that is bottled in large runs	CAVALIER
Really likes to dine where there’s just space for two	love seat
Ribs to get cooked in small restaurant	BISTRO
Scooter treated with European wood preservative	CREOSOTE
Sound of sheep right round a Zulu market	BAZAAR
Stick with commercial at this point	ADHERE
Storage space that’s left frequently	LOFT
Subdue female elephant	COW
Sweet pudding gone after seconds	SAGO
What can magnify part of pollen sac	LENS