The Times Cryptic December 8 2020 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27842
Clues	Answers
A number of strikers in cup tie perhaps to give yellow card	MATCHBOOK
Article in photo stops uncontrolled response	panic stations
Awkward, skier having to climb before retiring	BOLSHY
Be ecstatic, about to escape former sect	EXULT
Block and pen belonging to the writer, not new	STYMIE
Bonus for us, getting tailored old clothes	plus fours
Charge for Conservative guys in the rioting suggests more cordial relations	RAPPROCHEMENT
Charlie has to put up with a clot	CLUMP
Chastened villain in Dickens is surrounded by silence	SHEEPISH
Church service, say, not entirely debased with it	WORSHIP
Copper recording appeal catches right criminal	CULPRIT
Crawled back briefly the day before to put in one's notice	PERCEIVE
Curtailed proposal involving place away from work	off-site
Defender getting sack is to have adverse consequences	BACKFIRE
Doing our best about a source of damage	SABOTEUR
Entertaining place, an inspiration given to chaps likely to return aboard ship	amusement park
Holiday island's brought in neat organisation of groups	TRIBALISM
Initially attacking, later is better in defence	ALIBI
Joe in America perhaps recently avoiding railway	LATTE
Last-minute comment on why electricity failed?	down to the wire
Liking to give off quiet charm	ENCHANT
Meal provided by home will include a starter	launch pad
Mischievous people affected to board ship	SCAMPS
Most significant account about capital of Italy in history	ARCHAIC
Mostly grand manner not unknown in letter	EPISTLE
Reduced charge fixed for apple	RUSSET
Regular payments securing a form of support will have you feeling better	HAPPIER
Run from conflict in romance	FICTION
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1761
Clues	Answers
A rapacious creature, I managed hospital area under parking	PIRANHA
Bag search regularly reveals it	SAC
Bright red vehicle belonging to me	CARMINE
Ceremonial mass held by father	POMP
Cluster round king for morning meal	BRUNCH
Damage on outside of round large tooth	MOLAR
Depressingly little put into do-it-yourself	DISMALLY
Give a reason for changing axle pin	EXPLAIN
Grant, say, protecting an island songbird	CANARY
Great success concerning voucher	COUPON
Hazel's maybe about to hit for six?	STUN
Instrument popular with wine around	CLARINET
Make a case for three successive letters to finish	DEFEND
Mineral providing some chemicals	MICA
Old writer expired not achieving closure	open-ended
Petrol has this running at once	OCTANE
Property of informal talk on telephone	CHATTEL
Relative is foul when last two letters never arrive	UNCLE
Returning insect is eaten by another helplessly	FEEBLY
Sister with new uniform, head of nurses	NUN
Stuff beginning to rot in river at Cambridge	CRAM
Swimming style has fat go quickly	BUTTERFLY
Walk around Lake District?	PLACE
Whitechapel killer in empty factory finding trifles	FRIPPERY
Work, eastern treat that's funny __ The Mikado?	OPERETTA
Young bird allowed to follow wingless fowl	OWLET