The Times Cryptic December 2 2020 Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1757
Clues	Answers
A boxer good at putting up a guard?	WATCHDOG
A long time mostly producing fodder	FORAGE
Awards zero marks	OSCARS
Biography of Fry mixed up with Eliot's	life story
Bond needed in companies' crowdfunding	ESCROW
Charlie smuggled by decoy for ill-gotten gains	LUCRE
Crime of passion is initially risqué	PIRACY
Crooner pens a line for an American author	SALINGER
Fast runner __ he holds a record at first	HARE
In the first instance, niceties usually feel fairly sufficient	NUFF
Intolerant people try to get involved in scraps	BIGOTS
It's painful parking after fitness centre closes early	GYP
Japanese cartoon featuring in seminars from the east	ANIME
Karate instructor is seen getting beaten up	SENSEI
North American company importing hot food from Mexico	NACHO
Sailor originally rowed into state by river	MARINER
Salvage works outside small desert city	las vegas
Slump, depressed, next to item in playground	DOWNSWING
Sport: tired, endlessly	WEAR
Various different means of being delivered	SAVIOUR
Very soft bread dipped in gravy?	SOP
Vet tailed by vehicle is cut up	CARVE
When shattered, I forgot to strive for success	go for it
Where Joan of Arc died is in question	at stake
Whisky and mead oddly left at the end of banquet	MALT
Work on the top of a bottle to get port	PLYMOUTH
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27837
Clues	Answers
Attention brought to article that reduces shocking risks	EARTHING
Church on rocky outcrop set ablaze	TORCH
Constant contributor to employ alumni	LOYAL
Constant frost beginning to abate in peninsula	CRIMEA
Country cottage: one having to stoop?	BOWER
Coward say to strike out verse from fictional work	NOEL
Dismiss from racecourse, days later	red-card
Face leader avoiding furious debate	DIALECTIC
Fellow venturing to unseat last bureaucrat	MANDARIN
Gallon consumed by renowned pilot Harry	BADGER
Getting on N66 with a boarding pass	CONVIVIAL
I don't care for messing with the editorial process	REDACTION
Invader right to enter that which is claimed to be an island	NORMAN
Irish speaker's turn of phrase in heavy metal	IRIDIUM
Island force caught up in attack: be shocked	have a fit
Keen to immerse husband in southern brook	SHRILL
Make saint transgress, coming about in boat	CANONISE
Most just fine with quirky satire	FAIREST
No-account Roman historian's religious book	TITUS
Northerner's short stay in Paris hotel?	INUIT
One covering couples in car damaged in New York?	insurance policy
One marks (twice) poems ending in sentiment? Shameless!	IMMODEST
Patriarch against wearing Hawaiian garland	LEVI
Players, being experts, restricting lock	ACTRESSES
Press cavalry to provide engine once	iron horse
Run out, suspicious about stone platform	ROSTRUM
Standard clubs with refurbished interior	CRITERION
Supplement causing dependence about to be withdrawn	ADDITIVE
Take control with Globe customers on tube, minutes away	wear the trousers
Unit employed with rocks to lug round area	CARAT