The Times Cryptic December 24 2020 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27856
Clues	Answers
Admirer cheers following popular princess	INFANTA
Animatedly, auntie reads RLS adventure story	treasure island
Author in store with novel penned by Greek	GHOSTWRITER
Boy on French island gets a thrill	FRISSON
Case missing in carriage	STANCE
Concern, though not about one in isolation	SOLITUDE
Deep down in U-boat, hear torpedo	at heart
Disdain shown by agency worker after working in court	CONTEMPT
Film of polar bear shot round mouth of Horton River	pearl harbor
Finish degree course in ferry port	DIEPPE
Flair shown by almost everyone appearing in marquee	TALENT
Follow key number, heading off for battle	DOGFIGHT
Gauge outdated, failing to show power on steamship	ASSESS
Heading in the right direction playing links?	on course
Immoral investor's evil spirit	fallen angel
Mendicant would appear when this food produced in bar	EGG
Met employees here having come through Waterloo?	weather station
Moore's ultimate in standing figures	STATUES
Morale, say, on first of ops	EGO
Mutter in agitation about parking for orchestra member	TRUMPET
Nothing left at home? Quite the reverse	NIL
Number diving into Italian river, extremely choppy, might	POTENCY
Outlaw's trial cut short	BAN
Please wait a moment for what groom may do?	hold your horses
Reservist having row about blunder	TERRIER
Rings about the lines in play	OTHELLO
Short series of episodes about television's top executive	MINISTERIAL
Wizard coming from where we do?	out of this world
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1773
Clues	Answers
A quiet intermission around end of recital __ then this erupts?	APPLAUSE
Company gathered together to find astronomical object	COMET
Criminal attempt recalled in regret	ROGUE
Criticise return of routine: source of eventual happiness	RAPTURE
Discover truth about complaint __ not good	RUMBLE
Follow poster used in display	SHADOW
Get a sense of payment left	FEEL
I will interrupt passage in church, being artless	NAIVE
Imitate policeman going to Yard	COPY
It helps one observe end of alluring girl linked to 007?	SPYGLASS
Item for discussion is not quite lacking it, somehow	QUESTION
Last pair of gardeners in gardens attack the weeds? That's a lucky thing	HORSESHOE
Meaningless, largely empty confusion	MESS
One of Snow White's dwarfs very quietly brought in grass	HAPPY
One of the birds or bats	CUCKOO
Peevish Queen reformed rule over America	QUERULOUS
Religious in abundance, but dismissing heads of Catholic order	PIOUS
Ridicule medicine, or remedy, finally	PILLORY
Some editor-in-chief is calling regarding the Treasury	FISCAL
Son, upper-class type, and bishop needing no work to become snooty	SNOBBISH
Space programme's latest? Look amazed	GAPE
Speak, for example	SAY
Stories about King making responses on social media	LIKES
Support record showing work not yet completed	BACKLOG
Unwell still, though losing stone	ILL
Variety of plait seen around one girl's head?	PIGTAIL