The Times Cryptic January 28 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27886
Clues	Answers
Astronaut, first to last, nags	PACERS
Body of legislators had to back second measure	SENATE
Carriers conveying small ancestors of ours?	HOMINIDS
Companies not fussed about providing payment for injury?	COMPENSATION
Dealing with famous author	FIELDING
Falsetto's cast in part in opera	TOSCA
Go hunt, us? Quite otherwise, if something's this	UNSOUGHT
Hurried down at first and fell	PRECIPITATED
Indication of what's hot or cold may be here, readily available	on tap
It could suggest I step where one may slither dangerously?	off-piste
It's right in church to perform part of service in Latin	CREDO
Man has a dig to get round plant	TOMATILLO
Margaret with expression of surprise __ maiden showing a lot of resistance	MEGOHM
Music-maker having wine outside home	CLARINET
Period of time in which to embed a plant	CENTAURY
Philosophers? Most of that lot maybe fret inwardly	thomists
Plasterwork that is what you expect to obtain	PARGET
Prevent what allows youngster to fall asleep in school	SCOTCH
Rather unpleasant fellow, say, always turning up	to a degree
Regal request?	ASKING
Report can supply just the opposite	per contra
Secret society joined by a new islander	TONGAN
Sees hint about locations where drivers may pull in	pit stops
Shocking treatment you guards quietly copy	ECTYPE
Shrewdness a star's shown when joining urban community	PERSPICACITY
Step up, being against standing still	PROMOTION
Studied English to become an author	READE
Unwise financial procedure that could have company in money, strangely	false economy
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1798
Clues	Answers
A lone comic, terribly cheap	ECONOMICAL
Border straddled by distinguished gentlemen	EDGE
Criminal e-traders nabbed by the police	ARRESTED
Diagram to be understandable	FIGURE
Disdain continued briefly, almost completely futile	CONTEMPT
Distinctive quality of gold shown by artist	AURA
Divine figure with some authority	THOR
Fathers outside church shy away from dogs	DACHSHUNDS
Gosh, one with nothing is in a state!	OHIO
Impudent youngster, Conservative success	CHIT
Likely to go mad, being in need of a joint?	UNHINGED
Little devil by old shelter, unable to act	IMPOTENT
Little drinks go round after characters have turned up	NIPS
Little friend of Mickey being heard	MINI
Notice obsession making one very angry	SEETHING
Permitting everyone to be given due	ALLOWING
Religious person giving description of our earthy sphere	OBLATE
Repeated invitation that I cannot accept!	come come
Report of oil in this country	GREECE
Separation from ethnic origin	EXTRACTION
Something eating the lettuce? Blow!	SLUG
The soldiers facing an attack in that vicinity	THEREABOUT
University class? Crashing out in examination	TUTORIAL
Vivacious horse going over yard	PUNCHY