The Times Cryptic December 25 2020 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27857
Clues	Answers
A condition for being carried by pallid bargee?	WATERMAN
A love that's bad then good in authentic sort of film?	TRAVELOGUE
An entrance's variegated stones	AGATES
Anna has two __ Lucy and Jane are among other possibilities	middle names
Appropriate opinion	TAKE
Bill is one sort of cricketer on the up	TAB
Blue fish not caught	SAD
Cut, or style, of broadcaster	MOWED
Frost in December I'm expecting	RIME
Hits nails __ hard wood initially to penetrate	THWACKS
Late in the day escaping from eg poison	VENIN
Legs covered in grass got worse	RELAPSED
Match ending in magnificent victory	TWIN
Maybe a Venetian doge in role mostly awkward	GONDOLIER
Name for religious leader, holy American	PIUS
Number cut by half, amount that can be ignored?	FIG
Nymph coming to life, having light refreshment in a marquee?	GALATEA
Ordinary sort of castle maybe for a knight to occupy	VANILLA
People accused brilliant workers? There's concealed purpose	DEFENDANTS
Plant a message to establish social distancing?	TOUCH-ME-NOT
Pollster's message of increased bitterness	GALLUP
Refuse a dish wife served much earlier	WASTE
Repetition of extra terminal message	bye-bye
Shelter Yankee in a poor part of Harlem?	ASYLUM
Sorrowful about politician and other men as fly-by-nights?	TEMPORARY
Suggestion of big road race confronted by negative response	NOMINATION
Third-Ager on Scottish island	RETIREE
Unable to move currently, journalist in the wrong	snowed in
Unwelcome invader to stay in hotel __ try to intervene	VISIGOTH
Vehicle hit with its top shearing off	TRUCK
Without vetting ultimately, possibly guessing then?	sight unseen
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1774
Clues	Answers
A lord's leaping around at the back	DORSAL
A pound for a priest's vestment	ALB
Alibi let us off, being of some value	UTILISABLE
Awkward, if essential part of Oberammergau, cherished	GAUCHE
Boy perhaps, embraced by maids a-milking	SAM
Detective sergeant collecting unusual percussion instruments	DRUMS
Fibs about United v Villa initially affected players?	LUVVIES
First half of gift on day one is separate	APART
Got up to collect set award?	ROSETTE
Gunned down last of pipers piping	SHOT
Hair application allergy not oddly brought up	GEL
Headless bugler grabbing one: what could be more hideous?	UGLIER
Initially, geese are laying specially for lasses	GALS
Is hot? No, perishing, truthfully	INSOOTH
Money saved, an inducement to a calling bird?	nest egg
Nine ladies dancing somewhere on the motorway?	inside lane
Novelist William accepting right gift for day five	gold ring
Old Jute settler, English in his time	HENGIST
One arranging turtle dove (not first or seventh)?	true love
Point to daughter, getting up	DOT
Scenic country farm near Dolgellau, last of all __ found here	CYMRU
Secular fella, I calculate, in part	LAICAL
Slowly moving __ stealing __ quietly away	INCHING
Song's nine unusually bright red flashy features?	neon signs
Steamship going around pale swimmers	SWANS
Without a will in the States, husband and son must leave	INTESTATE