The Times - Cryptic - July 10 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27713
Clues	Answers
Chap writes off to the auditors	REX
Child’s play, this innings from one used to handling deliveries?	postmans knock
Composer’s optional direction to play louder?	ORFF
Cries as lumbang-oil emptied into vessel	SQUALLS
Doubt short integrated circuit close to spark plugs is faster	QUICKER
Exchange money, being paid half of stated price	quid pro quo
Foreign criminal having gone back, one had nick closed	BANDITO
Game show from Oz, initially pushing IQ up, weirdly	pop quiz
Glaring as family Golf is going past	OVERTAKING
He’s likely to be a Muslim? Most unlikely!	as if
Irrational and I hesitate to say outsize note providing musical direction	piu mosso
Judge the writer’s ungrammatical sneer	JIBE
Like a bargain? One not available continuously?	on offer
Look for someone with height in football team, not lacking heart	MANHUNT
Not the case guard used regularly to keep books in	UNTRUE
Party for letting go of some left-leaning minority groups	ORGY
People similar to this feel ok, somehow	the likes of
Pick toffees out of one’s mouth?	CHOOSE
Release clutch like a pro? Hardly!	LAY
Russian perhaps with trace of novichok avoiding check	ANDREI
Say what many diseases end in: being no better?	such as it is
Series of low very low grades deciding contests	RUNOFFS
Singer in need of whiskey getting larger bottles	waxwing
Single jug? That pitcher might do	Jailhouse Rock
Start doing gags about Charlie being seen at Cheltenham?	jump jockey
Teary daughter, newly wed, hugging you repeatedly	dewy-eyed
The force of certain posturing involving Left in imprecise reasoning?	fuzzy logic
Touching address finally by head of Europol leading investigation	RESEARCH
Very understanding chap, changing with time	EMPATHIC
Way to get bread and piece of cake	STROLL
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1654
Clues	Answers
Be upwardly mobile Conservative member	CLIMB
Bird showing split crest	PARTRIDGE
Chap to kill carrying large instrument	MANDOLIN
Comfortable about stolen report	GUNSHOT
Dizzy Delia entertains me, offering drink	LIMEADE
Drunk bringing large snake into bed	BLADDERED
Eastern artist’s a long time	ERA
Fabulous writer dishevelled as Poe	AESOP
Glance at youngster upset in disgrace	SCANDAL
God having party back at home	ODIN
Hang from gallows again	SAG
Head seen in random encounter	DOME
Is much excited by total theatre	music hall
Key is with lock in Harrow	DISTRESS
Mum clothes a nice man in purple	MAGENTA
One bashed in legs	SINGLE
One grabbed by fat landlord	LAIRD
Only remaining son survives	LASTS
Pair touring Canada wrecked Bobby's vehicle	panda car
Peach lieutenant dropped in beer	BELTER
Policeman eating horse meat slice	CHOP
Powerless when nebula spreads	UNABLE
Reportedly inexperienced novelist	GREENE
Sent abroad, former editor consumes wine	EXPORTED
Shakespearean villain one from that time	IAGO
Wave over ship in thrilling ride	roller-coaster