The Times - Cryptic - September 8 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27764
Clues	Answers
A film to blow you away?	gone with the wind
About to take the plunge perhaps, mixing nicotine with heroin	on thin ice
Agreement to pay for a year	TREATY
Before English period, inspectors withdraw	DISENGAGE
Coach correctly left for the house	stage right
Copy infantry photo: how much one adds to the atmosphere!	carbon footprint
Country road to take, city having been rejected?	ALBANIA
Fellow translated only the first three in sacred text	MANTRA
First on stage, not turning to don cloak and topper	CAPSTONE
Get into trouble about check on outside compartment	COCKPIT
Go off melon, maybe, unpleasant at first for the tongue	URDU
Join one unable to drive alone in car	COUPLE
Just support for the bar	UPRIGHT
Knocking code supremo?	PINKING
People concealing a purpose	MEAN
Ploughing futile in regularly cold, distant area of farm	OUTFIELD
Repair resort, half damaged	RESTORE
Smack round lug and hurry away	clear out
Sort of coffee, say: one loves drinking it	PHILTRE
Sound beams to erect	RAISE
Spirits: senior officer takes two	GENII
Support actor in eastern town	GRANTHAM
Time to impersonate a duck? Nonsense!	TWADDLE
Toxin perhaps in plant I generally cut down	ANTIGEN
Trouble with nerve __ in bed this may help	hot-water bottle
Where on the IoW there is a requirement for sewers?	the needles
Where pig may go to be cosily warm	TOASTY
Without thought, approving erasing items before recording receives marks	rubber-stamping
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1696
Clues	Answers
A little scary __ a tidy figure going to support building, perhaps	CARYATID
Admit Ophelia sits awkwardly	HOSPITALISE
An errant merge gone wrong could lead to this?	REARRANGEMENT
Behaved amorously __ when papa’s wife fainted	SWOONED
Caught pub returning seafood	CRAB
Company not out to make money	COIN
Filthy place where cops lose criminal	CESSPOOL
Girl’s a new doctor in South Africa	SANDRA
Half completed building	SHED
Little piggy’s end not a lie, tragically	TOENAIL
Man found around western part of Wales	GWENT
Marks yearbook carving out name by hand	MANUAL
Means of crossing forest location between streets, working east	stepping stone
Perfect one to buy and sell	IDEAL
Revealed non-professional expenditure	OUTLAY
Rubbish round Madrid arena	BULLRING
Searingly? Wearingly? They both do this delightfully	endearingly
Shake oil paint apt to run	PALPITATION
Shot from gun	CANNON
Stress English politician has income support initially	EMPHASIS
Where horses are beginning some training under direction	STUD
Wolf upset plain herder	PHILANDERER