The Times - Cryptic - September 23 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27777
Clues	Answers
A second son, one behaving foolishly	ASS
Aegean island some seek ostentatiously	KOS
City came first, securing last of five goals ultimately	LEEDS
Communicate with bishop over satisfactory primer	TEXTBOOK
Discharge former partner in robust health	EXHALE
Doddery old bachelors originally living in outskirts of Whitby	WOBBLY
Empress's army once carrying nerve gas	TSARINA
Fashionable cosmetic preparation for one vocalising in church	INTONER
Fellow keeping oxen at first for beef	MOAN
Finally he hangs out somehow in Japanese governor's office	shogunate
Fish deft anglers catch easily to begin with	DACE
Greek mountain's huge appeal	OSSA
Half of them sketch vaguely from beginning to end	THROUGHOUT
Ignorant, but not tight, do we hear?	UNTAUGHT
Instrument produced by graduates thus performing	BASSOON
It thus set up a Roman port	OSTIA
Italian poet's heartless noble	ARISTO
Join a former partner collecting news	ANNEX
Lothario, perhaps? More like Solomon crossing eastern state	WOMANISER
Makes start, sadly, as scourge of workforce?	TASKMASTER
Maybe Chinese festival involving English sailors	EASTERNER
Most balanced article written in small refuge	SANEST
Quiet, more colourful piece of office equipment	SHREDDER
Remorseful American hiding in an outhouse	ASHAMED
Report of sludge in one of three rivers	OUSE
Resident in Hampshire briefly entertaining a little	INHABITANT
Scorer's stock stories about start of match	SMETANA
Speak indistinctly, losing marks at first, say	UTTER
Spooky entertainer left president following golf	GHOSTLIKE
Storyteller from Scottish island returning to centre of Kinross	NARRATOR
Wavering of ambassador initially inept in post	HESITATION
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1707
Clues	Answers
Bitter woman coming in to do a song	SCATHING
Bloke keen, some say, to establish wine shop	BODEGA
Cockney building boundary round field, moving slowly?	EDGING
Common old man fed by priest before fast	PREVALENT
Endlessly casting about, catching high-class marine creature	sea urchin
Envisage instruments originally employed in Enigma variation	IMAGINE
Expression wears thin for listeners	PHRASE
Fellow engaged in moral philosophy	RALPH
Fish on estate, perhaps, getting floral decoration	GARLAND
General deliveries a couple of Liberals assembled	OVERALL
Hindu queen administered island	RANI
In Tiepolo, a notable advance	LOAN
Insect originally good at digging for lost young?	GADFLY
Italian citizens coming from same line somehow	MILANESE
Like birds initially imported in a commercial vehicle	AVIAN
Motto found in record kept by hospital	SLOGAN
Opposed to books being dumped in main road	ANTI
Outstanding old part of house	OWING
Quiet girl on Irish river	SHANNON
Scottish festival always associated with chap minding pigs?	HOGMANAY
Shade used in houses regularly	HUE
She was Boaz's wife? Pity	RUTH
Suppress comedian's joke	GAG
Track taking dog across river	TRAIL
Uncouth old swimmer crossing centre of bay	OAFISH
US politician caught deserter at end of rally	DEMOCRAT