The Times Cryptic May 7 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27658
Clues	Answers
After publication, clear drawer	MAGNET
Agreement stuffed, by the sound of it?	PACT
Astonished, when teeth knocked out?	GOBSMACKED
Attention-seeker beginning to kick lout	OIK
Beating champion of the century?	tonking
Converted cabin behind pub in tower	BARBICAN
Cruciverbalist's job getting harder	SETTING
Digit so extreme, ultimately?	TOE
Edge: border of hat, not cap	RIM
House found touring Uzbek capital	STUART
How grass cutter's cut line of bushes	HEDGEROW
I'm disgusted by backtracking individual __ it's all I can take!	ENOUGH
Kid at home playing opera	the mikado
Led, having heard a shot in race	SPEARHEADED
Like rock formed from lava that’s cooled (as in cold)	BASALTIC
Little personal responsibility	BABY
Lock securing object in style	TRENDINESS
Man is struggling to accept one __ like himself?	SIMIAN
Nothing quicker around ultimately than crane fly?	zip fastener
Passionate, well-built chaps kept in check	VEHEMENT
Pound invested in misery served up in joint	ELBOW
Property agreement invalid as I'm three!	TIMESHARE
Prowler in deli, one's shoplifting	LIONESS
Quick, a stay	ALIVE
Roof blown off house, ending in different block	INGOT
Shame about poles attached to cord being bent	PROPENSITY
Stick no label upside down	BATON
Table: first of furniture items lost	EATS
Taken aboard ship, Neapolitan food for horse	LIPIZZANER
Unexciting European, dull revolutionary	TAME
Useful thing bringing up branch stuck in a well	AMENITY
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1608
Clues	Answers
Attractive man's bit of jewellery	STUD
Colour of metal tiger's head	TINT
Consequences of one initially minor agreement	IMPACT
Cut legs when retreating	SNIP
Fall behind lass heading north	LAG
Lager and cider: you'll need an antidote for it!	SNAKEBITE
Leave car electrician has failed to start	PARK
Modernised a dud pet, somehow	UPDATED
Observe affirmative response, we hear	EYE
Overturn unexpected result	UPSET
Prevent a former soldier keeping rifle, at first	AVERT
Psychological strategy: look out for wild animals	mind game
Redesign secure HQ where the PM stays sometimes	CHEQUERS
Retain possession of stronghold	KEEP
Rinse strange sticky substance	RESIN
Rodent disease contained by artificial intelligence	AGOUTI
Roman god: he's cruel, unfortunately	HERCULES
Seating broken by second very large lady	GIANTESS
Shakespeare, perhaps, is forbidden on the radio	BARD
Smoothing the end of the day	EVENING
Survived being confined, losing oxygen	COPED
The current decade represented in tweets	TWENTIES
Try out underground piece of laboratory apparatus	test tube
When a car refuels, containers fall over	pit stop
Where the litigious will see you after a good battle	AGINCOURT
Wow, delightful ornamental feature	CORNICE