The Times - Cryptic - September 4 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27761
Clues	Answers
All that's left of prime steak?	RUMP
Boat that has fortified wine, heading 90 degrees off-course	WHERRY
Briefly cavorting in sun at hotspot	in a nutshell
Comparatively thin, metallic bar running through deck	TINNIER
Conservative faction left in party raised barrier	old guard
Do away with hollow effect round moulding	ANNULET
Expanse of sand and desert a bonus for sailors?	shore leave
Extremely cocky, continental journalist passed through revolution?	CYCLED
Fiction penned by an incomer	ALIEN
Ghastly horse going without its carriage?	MACABRE
Grub favoured by Hell's Angel?	LEATHERJACKET
In army officer's wake, I join up with good humour	GENIALLY
Investor number one set up gold reserves, perhaps	BULLION
Island's housing inspector books those behaving stupidly	IDIOTS
Kind but uncouth fellows nourish mad dog on the loose	rough diamonds
Kind son gripped by aversion to speed	make haste
Make case to hold note that's repeatedly folded	PLEATED
Motivate last pair of men before besieging foreign fighters	ENERGISE
Part of Evensong, graduate facing it fearfully	MAGNIFICAT
Partially divide ten territories, lessening hostility	DETENTE
Person running on track's the one I report to	line manager
Regular occurrences of racial trouble	AIL
Room for preparing all we know, longing to intervene	KITCHEN
Seaweed that is being found in Scottish waters?	KELPIE
Solution for washing all dirty people's backs	LYE
Syndicate with one pound investment maturing	RIPENING
Troops engaged in uphill jog suffering	TORMENT
Victor in trouble, cut deeply	CARVE
What mustn't be done with two legs elevated	no-no
Who, ditching wife, dated girl? I'm ashamed to hear it	home truth
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1694
Clues	Answers
Apprentice not starting profitable activity	EARNER
Brusque in Battersea	TERSE
Carmen, for example, seen in Europe rarely	OPERA
Cyril composed a bit of verse	LYRIC
Discarded goods from planes in the morning	JETSAM
Drew on unknown English hippy's clothing, possibly?	tie-dye
Factory containing last piece of satellite for Mars, perhaps	PLANET
Fashionable article on NE racetrack feature	CHICANE
Greek character with naughty crime at sea	PIRACY
Heal Charlie badly with my dubious branch of science	ALCHEMY
Inelegant, like an atheist's meal?	GRACELESS
Lack of powerful Arab rulers, we hear, is not much good?	no great shakes
Marsha rebuilt Hindu retreat	ASHRAM
Most intelligent tips from climber leaving mountain	CLEVEREST
Nothing in routes that arouses pity	PATHOS
Put down roots around a US city	SEATTLE
Quietly must leave golf club, say	UTTER
Scoundrel's accent not British	ROGUE
Senor OK playing a game	SNOOKER
Significant narration	TELLING
Something ugly I observed in conversation	EYESORE
Statue is demolished — shrewd!	ASTUTE
Those back to front beliefs	ETHOS
Wave with one not trying fairground ride?	ROLLERCOASTER