The Times - Cryptic - July 27 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27727
Clues	Answers
Bloomer made by teacher going round a new food shop	DANDELION
Cheeseparer, one initially swimming in sea off Nice	MISER
Choose to put up around centre of Newport	OPT
Church body upset over spirit audibly fading away	EVANESCENCE
Considerable criticism gathering round extreme parts of Henry’s life	BIOGRAPHY
Degrading form of feuding overwhelming one in Scotland	UNEDIFYING
Drink Scandinavian nomad left unfinished	LAP
Eg Welsh commander-in-chief welcoming English officer	CELTIC
Genuine old Spanish coin	REAL
Good French painter capturing old man, an emperor’s supporter	BONAPARTIST
Hint from small Scouse singer inspiring in tango	SCINTILLA
Hospital doctor originally operating in Sumatra	SANATORIUM
Infamous old port protected by other people?	NOTORIOUS
Key army corps almost crazy about hotel’s liqueur	Creme de menthe
Live at end of lake with beadle __ a worker, possibly	BUMBLEBEE
Manage to catch son in wood	COPSE
Marine creature reportedly saw a taxi crossing river	spider crab
New Zealander’s answer you and I heard	KIWI
Not entirely secure as top bridge-player	EAST
One who guides bullocks to west of island	STEERSMAN
Phlegmatic type almost shut in thus	STOIC
Racecourse record thus misrepresented at first	EPSOM
Reddish church at top of hill	CERISE
Remove monastic devotee adopting revised rite	OBLITERATE
Responsibility __ and where ours lies	ONUS
Surprisingly their purser’s accepting a fund manager’s position	TREASURERSHIP
Tough left restaurant, having consumed hot starter	LEATHERY
Woman priest, one giving orders?	DIRECTOR
Woman’s contribution finally accepted by Times	AGNES
Work trapeze artistes are ill-advised to have	NONET
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1665
Clues	Answers
After losing the first two, claim point	AIM
Certain to keep city safe	SECURE
Confused as sharp taste came first	TANGLED
Consider an affront to be given another errand	RESENT
Corruption of grown-up portion, with Ecstasy in it	ADULTERATION
Each solicitor to patronise restaurant	eat out
Energetic backing for detectives arresting large numbers	DYNAMIC
Fish’s small head	SNAPPER
Got up in pink	ROSE
Happy about copper being an element	MERCURY
Illness proceeded very rapidly, we hear	FLU
In reality, this is unwelcome to hear	home truth
Light fixture	MATCH
Mail worker no longer in theatre	post-operative
Most fashionable, but comes to an end in river	TRENDIEST
Place is curiously distinctive	SPECIAL
Planet extremely hazy and boggy	MARSHY
Prayer leader? I am a medium	IMAM
Prophet Amos esteemed, to some extent	MOSES
Test for car, one following distinctive pattern	MOTIF
Think temperature’s dropped, so intervene	MEDIATE
Timid hangman’s developed powerful strength	might and main
Walk over: time to pick up a book	TREAD
What Peter Piper did, for example, is hard to say	tongue-twister