The Times - Cryptic - August 27 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27754
Clues	Answers
A second individual torn apart by current slur	ASPERSION
Attempt to divide open tart and a measure of wine	FLAGON
Chatting with judge in flight?	JAWING
Choirboy to shake with fear, having missed Mass	TREBLE
City university in Zambia originally having money to burn?	ZURICH
Clairvoyant visited by Saint David, most famously	PSALMIST
Contrite worker who's been confined again?	REPENTANT
Enjoying realised ambition, having led with merit at sea	living the dream
Explosive material in container brought back by sappers	NITRE
Extremely brazen, his sister's cultivated national identity	BRITISHNESS
Gather in a New England state, briefly	AMASS
Generous with funds ultimately invested in refuge, perhaps	HANDSOME
Girl regularly leaves tough meat, finding fibre	ISTLE
Keep wife in cricket side	OWN
Latvian allows husband to pen note	LETTISH
Like some fat Tudor composer keeping old wife and horse	tallowish
Long story about Eeyore, primarily	YEARN
Mind food shop, taking first of compounds like LSD?	PSYCHEDELIC
National idioms a woman found going over a chap's manuscript	IRISHISMS
Native American in hired vehicle touring Rhode Island	CARIB
One who gives out marks missing in term-time mix-up	EMITTER
Relaxed midshipman, one captivated by medal	easy-going
See about providing shelter for western bird	OWL
Slovenly hotel dejected chums are upset over	SLAPDASH
Soft-hearted type's feeling about first of many top people?	SENTIMENTALIST
Some unhealthy phenomenon that's in centre of Guinea-Bissau	HYPHEN
Time to restore confidence to a son missing love?	TREASURE
Unknown European group infiltrated by a fanatic	ZEALOT
Vessel dropping off a US magazine in midday break	LUNCHTIME
Wary when star of US gangster movies drops in at last	CAGEY
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1688
Clues	Answers
Artist's pants	DRAWERS
Bald Ulsterman moved item of hall furniture?	umbrella stand
Bottom of ship's bunk	BILGE
Boy trapped back in concrete pillar	PETER
Celeb briefly backed into corrupt poll	ELECTION
Chap's local refurbished in 2000	MALCOLM
Comes back on steamship going round small lake	RESPONDS
Communist: the German revolutionary	RED
Daughter's head: strange place to do tattoo	DRUM
Ermine Street coming across to Alconbury at first	STOAT
Forger sends money in two holdalls first of all	SMITH
Gather idiot has badge with end missing	ASSEMBLE
My half of child's horse	GEE
Old priest: the Spanish one	ELI
Oust violently with veto to achieve defeats democratically	OUTVOTES
Overheard couple too much	TOO
Part of flower __ and of date palm	TEPAL
Point, when American soldier's on the way	GIST
Row after catching grand, wild cat	TIGER
Rubbish solution for irritated viewers	EYEWASH
Struggle avoided, ignoring the odds	VIE
Tango with novel footwear in song from musical	Tea for Two
Those people must accept rebuke for this treatment	THERAPY
Top, black, suitable for surfers?	browsable
Turkey leg Bob demolished? Right!	GOBBLER
Violinist's last seen on composer's journeys	TRAVELS
Volume was illuminating, with accompanying note	LITRE
Yours truly's up for eating a potato	YAM