The Times - Cryptic - September 10 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27766
Clues	Answers
Basil perhaps gets bowled out in bit of trouble	POTHER
Beak retaining old form of capital punishment	NOOSE
Daughter with bad back and slouch	DROOP
Draw dustcart, taking back bottles	ATTRACT
Failed to answer what some eat for breakfast before rising?	BEGGED
Former railway food in the buffet?	PASTRY
Girl blowing a million in the States	ERICA
Good to take on threatening shape in darkness	GLOOM
Greek hero’s body is as Zeus decapitated	ODYSSEUS
Instant benefit, getting hold of singular hair styler	MOUSSE
Like some roads teen idler vandalised	tree-lined
Long without drugs, initially ecstasy, not allowing a fix?	INDETERMINABLE
One getting time if he messed up?	THIEF
One who tolerates free furs being distributed	SUFFERER
Reportedly auction unmarked aircraft	SAILPLANE
Revered object priest installed in church	RELIC
Revolutionary English, say? I’m surprised that’s heard in Ohio	GEE
Rolling account left unpaid	BILLOWING
Sam and Frodo together did finally get gold here	MORDOR
Shivering time with wind, right?	MIDWINTER
Short time “visiting” jug? That’s interminable bird!	FLAMINGO
Sterility of inadequate policies embraced by Civil Service	CLEANLINESS
Surprising movement in platform in Embankment?	DADAISM
Threaten troublemaker with ruin	IMPEND
Try getting front off organ	EAR
Verdi aria from noble Amelia mad about Carlos, perhaps	la donna e mobile
What labs might do for unstreamlined transport	sit-up-and-beg
What may be offensive clothes get wrapped in foil, perhaps	SWEARWORD
What scalene triangle must have adjacent	ALONGSIDE
Work needed on Post Office location over the road	OPPOSITE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1698
Clues	Answers
’umble villain from superior sixties musical recalled	URIAH
Approach steps in wall, perhaps, speaking	STYLE
Aspect ultimately tiresome, in truth	FACET
Bottom half of barrel old cook emptied	BUTTOCK
Country, for example, base for army training	EGYPT
Criminal one captured by the force	THIEF
Desperate or fancy fellow, expert in karate?	DAN
Excited exclamation Dorothy regularly let out	OOH
Fake, largely inferior, hair preparation	SHAMPOO
Father and I with close companion	FRIEND
Female Steerforth corrupted embracing a new dad?	foster father
Flower one’s seen in the light	DAISY
Gave dad note for translation	DONATED
Girl from W European country’s chartered accountant	FRANCESCA
In British Library’s not above making awful errors	BLUNDERS
In the past, American English being employed too much	OVERUSE
Left-winger to make brisk progress	TROT
Lift, tho’, is out of order	HOIST
Make racket, with lorry briefly stuck in street	CONSTRUCT
Nice edifices, sadly displaying shortcomings	deficiencies
Reddish-brown ape hugging retreating salesman	COPPERY
Series of Wayfarer — unnecessary to televise again?	RERUN
Shower of affection coming out of Barkis — seriously!	KISSER
Sound quality coming from south west?	TONE
Stony garden has circle for a hundred nesting birds	ROOKERY
Wager Ed, stocking fish, is sold out	BETRAYED