The Times - Cryptic - September 3 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27760
Clues	Answers
A French vessel in sea, lacking identification	UNMARKED
Accord Henry a new position in church	ARCHDEACONRY
Barbed prong finally penetrating judge of advanced years	JAGGED
Concept everyone associated at first with papers	IDEA
Crane-like bird Turkish commander found by main road	AGAMI
Entice police chief initially developing freedom in lines	poetic licence
Fairly sour press employee caught dipping into grant	SUBACID
Fellow in doorway __ painting, possibly?	PORTRAYAL
It's measured along a meridian, in the main	nautical mile
Loyalty from a duke thus, protecting queen	ADHERENCE
Man following retired woman's turn of phrase	IDIOM
Measure of liquid bridge-player put in large vessel	GALLEON
Naval officer, one with two daughters in motor yacht	MIDDY
One demonstrated a crystalline compound	ISATIN
Overheard to whimper like a baby, being cross?	MULE
Person investigating an American man on board?	CHECKER
Podginess of English male with good French cape	EMBONPOINT
Pounds invested in women's area in New York district	HARLEM
President at bar, next to a flower arrangement	IKEBANA
Stupid aspersion in speech, gradually losing force	DIMINUENDO
Took risks __ kicked bucket across entrance to crescent	DICED
Touring Rhode Island, old lover carries minute scarlet flag	ORIFLAMME
Uncontrolled emotion blowing up this year	HYSTERIA
Unemployed debt-collector bitten by ruddy insect!	REDUNDANT
Union leader in public vehicle getting over a shock	TRAUMA
Wasted time supporting unmarried female writer	MISSPENT
Woman runs business, one conveying messages by air	carrier pigeon
Work with miners cutting top of oak tree	LABURNUM
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1693
Clues	Answers
Abjure wickedness, as casual visitor does	drops in
An entrance in stone	AGATE
By its very nature top fiasco is disastrous	Ipso facto
Cook slowly, throwing in a bit of lard? Less fat	SLIMMER
County is grand nearly the whole time	GALWAY
Crazy old-timers aim to be long remembered	immortalised
Data about popular drugs	STATINS
Distinctive theory is mathematician's first	ISM
Even I find this creature fantastic	YETI
Garment, new, shoplifted?	STOLEN
Glow, good meal being cooked	GLEAM
Meaningfully, I get close to den	in earnest
Pair with vision looked for victims	PREYED
Produce bypassing a Mediterranean island	CRETE
Prosaic concern, not on law	matter-of-fact
Relax, unwell after church	CHILL
Seriousness of natural attraction	GRAVITY
Shortly advise dairy product	BRIE
Small team specially tasked to take the back off?	DETAIL
Some Syrian drowned valley	RIA
These mountains tending to shake?	ROCKY
Thin dress material poet picked up	TOILE
Very excited in the past by golf	AGOG
Very thin ale sent for replacement	LEANEST
Very, very indifferent	so-so
Wiping light cover	DUSTING