The Times Cryptic December 31 2020 Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27862
Clues	Answers
At a certain angle, church is gleaming	RADIANCE
Author's appeal to remain	SALINGER
Avoided players given cards at ground	ESCHEWED
Behind this door, books are essential	INHERENT
Brother briefly security-checked in ship	CORVETTE
Can't hope to change something in Whitehall	CENOTAPH
Detention of gunman finally in act of disposing of body	INTERNMENT
Forcing payment without a fight	EXACTION
Imagine no end of malice against one guru	ENVISAGE
In shadow, exercise without feeling the power in the sun?	PENUMBRA
Innovators recycling DNA at grave	avant-garde
Member of drug squad? No, another branch	speed cop
Naive, taking no coin to pub	INNOCENT
Off on holiday here, stuck originally between two short men?	STANSTED
Old ship's slow movement leaving loch	ARGO
Part of vital passage where island crop is transported	spinal cord
Passing mention had effect on nothing	OBIT
Plainly written name in iced cake	en clair
Poet in turn welcomed by fat cat	LEOPARD
Possible source of Conference's sparkling repartee	pear tree
Record one bogey at the start holding golfers up __ in play, one's squeezed	BAGPIPE
Shape up to buy a suitcase	get a grip
St Paul's type, perhaps, man racked with tension	MINNESOTAN
Stop-go manoeuvre in snow	stem turn
Sweet, part of lunch occasionally?	CHOC
Unusual exam conceals one trap	ORIGINAL
Verse with a line to alter	VARY
Woman's clothes said to be shaggy	HIRSUTE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1778
Clues	Answers
Archdeacon always displaying specious refinement	VENEER
Artist is easy at first to uplift	RAISE
Astute woman in outskirts of Coventry	CANNY
Boat race oddly grips one __ like spectacular flying!	AEROBATIC
Caterpillar food?	GRUB
Choosing the best job on the fruit farm?	cherry-picking
Ditzy type can test briar, surprisingly	SCATTERBRAIN
Extraordinary claims surrounding university entertainment	MUSICAL
Extremely dodgy, unpleasant line of hereditary rulers	DYNASTY
Fairly broad bowl used by women's organisation	WIDISH
Farm animal the present solver talked of	EWE
Guards losing head finding gates, perhaps	ENTRIES
Heavenly body in need of a man-made hormone	STEROID
Incident Elgar associated with pomp?	CIRCUMSTANCE
Journalist given position in the French city	LEEDS
Originally living under tree, like a wolf	LUPINE
Parrot originally making a sound like a crow	MACAW
Plant listening device in pub, catching English bête noire	BUGBEAR
Pulverised earth	GROUND
Reportedly how one may ill-treat a dog?	WHIPPET
Thriller turned out down in hut	WHODUNNIT
Throw drunkard over top of seawall	TOSS
Unhealthy part of rail link	ILL
What we may have on our mind before work?	PREOCCUPATION