The Times - Cryptic - September 24 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27778
Clues	Answers
Accurate, but somehow not great	on target
Be reconciled, after brush with assembly	kiss and make up
Chaplain to put up with holy bunch!	sky pilot
Conductor when chosen went up	ELECTRODE
Daughters entering singly at first, in a state	INDONESIA
Deckhands finally got out of sweeping vessel	VAT
Director, in extremis, fought to secure financial backer for film	dr strangelove
Drink quietly, repeatedly, at home, gaining weight	pink gin
From memory, after a quiet retreat	ASHRAM
Heading off armed, made a sally	QUIPPED
Hiker settles by forestry worker	FOOTSLOGGER
Husband bearing heavy item of furniture is one giving you a wave?	HAIRDRESSER
Job on staff, just right for animated deliveryman	postman pat
Light headed?	LED
Long to be back on stage in the London area	STEPNEY
Old sitcom initially featuring in ratings	ab fab
Peg, getting stuck into beer, on the slippery slope?	ALPINE
Pepper pot: mine needs to be shaken	PIMENTO
PM, previously to resign, remains around	ASQUITH
Race the eccentric run in mostly	ETHNIC
Reclusive industrialist, speaking for the Greens, perhaps	HUES
Right in attempt to obtain private capital	BRIDGETOWN
Runner reflecting on the subject of large clogs	SMUGGLER
Second charity event the Scottish miss	MORAG
Slash cover to access petty cash	SOLIDUS
Subject of treaty dubious at best, note	test ban
Touched, as doctor, friend and parent meet with young delinquent	PALPATED
Unusual request to look for songwriter	NOVELLO
What only child might want unaltered	as is
What sailors caught, close to divers with the bends?	SCURVY
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1708
Clues	Answers
A change involving one in birdcage	AVIARY
Abbreviated state service	MASS
Almost become unable to see mischievous spirit	GOBLIN
Cheese and some apricot taken	RICOTTA
Close match, one assumed after dark	NIGHTIE
Cornish tourist came across me, back at the front	EMMET
Dairy product from goat?	BUTTER
Drinking bout in front half of car	JAG
Face operation: expert does, we hear	nose job
For transplant, scan iris and other flowers	NARCISSI
Good for food, for example, which a poet might use?	eye rhyme
Good man meets with resistance	STAND
Insect takes off from pages of book	flyleaves
Judge turned to note	JOT
Leap year makes us nervous	JUMPY
Money's problematic if in a clan	FINANCIAL
Ready to eat? Tear back from office	RIPE
Right oven, for this?	ROAST
Sage parent accepts head covering	MAHATMA
Second shopping area is modest	SMALL
See me wrapped up in warm coat, but only part of leg	FEMUR
Shore leave in hopeless place	STRAND
Stupidly censorious about name for man of taste	CONNOISSEUR
Tiny workers' high-rise accommodation	ANTHILL
Too shy to play piano in store	TOYSHOP
Unconcerned to be popular, standing out from the crowd?	INDIFFERENT