The Times Cryptic November 24 2020 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27830
Clues	Answers
About to open grape juice and the Spanish wine	MUSCATEL
After temperature’s dropped, arrange prizes for facing the waves	SEAWARDS
Albatross, for one, is out of sorts	below par
Awful about death __ they hang	PENDANTS
Book presenting facts: not the first time	RUTH
Cleopatra was girly in the extreme in brief fancy panties	EGYPTIAN
Distress as inspector for example crosses motorway	DISMAY
Following music, look at prominent organ	pop-eye
Food baked brown, the first thing to open?	TANDOORI
Former adversary deprived of work, a symbol of power	EXPONENT
Given a turn newly on a rota in committee, at first like Pre-Raphaelite painting	NATURALISTIC
Halves of beer to begin with one’s put round party	BISECTS
Handle blow, retreating	KNOB
It may need clipping again, left wild	AGNAIL
Journalist’s announcement to create awe	IMPRESS
Look into organised group intending to be obstructive	bloody-minded
Name: Hilary, for example	TERM
On call, not every girl: certainly no aristocrat	working-class
Only Charlie is beginning to make an embarrassing mistake	SOLECISM
People putting on plays including grand shocks	STAGGERS
Pretty girls having twinges after exercising	PEACHES
Respectful gesture as second warning may be heard	SALAAM
Rubbish ravenously eaten __ I approve	GOBBLEDEGOOK
Scheme by one engineer after attack artillery repulsed	ARTIFICE
Show horror as southern half of Yorkshire town wiped out	SHUDDER
Very fine inhaler I misused	HAIRLINE
What can refresh one’s day, coming in mostly sluggish	LEMONADE
Young woman shorn of resistance finally consented: don’t do this to Lily!	GILD
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1751
Clues	Answers
A confident walk catching on with a spaceman	ASTRONAUT
Air-con adjusted with a rare instrument	OCARINA
Big celebrity gets Mara excited	MEGASTAR
Bring up figure in cooped up animal?	HEIGHTEN
During flight, loin cut in half __ piece of meat	ESCALOPE
Extra frugal	SPARE
First of colonists in Armenia moving from Georgia, say?	AMERICAN
For the auditor, check rule	REIGN
Girl created sounds	MAID
Greek character hosting a dance	LAMBADA
I appreciate that team one's hailed	TAXI
Individual after different name for plant	ANEMONE
Installed in house, a reed organ	EAR
Learn to play on an organ	RENAL
Look at joker, jack, queen or king	face card
Number enjoy computer technology	DIGIT
One who had a brush with the law?	CONSTABLE
Part of Cairo, metropolitan capital	ROME
Plain circled by lion, perhaps, for entertainment	CABARET
Pluck something from the wine cellar?	BOTTLE
Real flat bombs, essentially	after all
Sound the horn going forward and reversing	TOOT
Spy contract	BOND
Story about harbour	REPORT
Suitable attack	FIT
Tidy way to serve whisky?	NEAT