The Times Cryptic January 6 2021 Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27867
Clues	Answers
A German turning back to welcome city relative	NIECE
Almost all the booze knocked back in darkness	NIGHT
Back Her Majesty to be more authoritarian	STERNER
Bigoted? A bishop must step in right away	NARROW
Blunder, as is possible with mule	put ones foot in it
Continue to be harsh on saleswoman in recession	PERSEVERE
Contrive once more to render rhino safe	REFASHION
Dignified admission that one’s putting on an act?	IMPOSING
Endlessly regret joke about speed merchant’s approach	run-up
First of early NHS units built in military accommodation	Nissen hut
Getting stuck, Charlie has a breather	CLUNG
Gloomy about one’s son’s expulsion	DISMISSAL
Gnome used to be upside down	SAW
He painted tsar’s opponents, eating only when ordered	REYNOLDS
Horribly grim aunt mellowing perhaps	MATURING
In South Africa I grow supportive of the national drink?	PROTEA
It hurts, being long subordinate to judge in Bow	EARACHE
Lazing around? It’s pretty underwhelming	not up to much
Naturally obstreperous northern boatmen	to the manner born
Not entirely together, EU pontificates on this	HEREUPON
Perhaps one in eight might, after change of leader	ROWER
Pony disembowelled by Indian? That’s disturbing	CREEPY
Stagger around with the Speaker?	TWEETER
Style of overall, not the first union staff rejected	mock-tudor
Top-notch rock band in seaside attraction	PREMIER
Traffic in March moving easily at first	TRADE
Vicar’s boy not feeling too good, apparently	PARSON
Way in which press was accommodated once?	Fleet Street
What might give you an irritated look?	EYESTRAIN
Wicked desire to get rid of husband	ACE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1782
Clues	Answers
A container is not closed	AJAR
A gentle knocking in bathroom fitting	TAP
A short distance dogs perhaps returned	STEP
Call for artist to produce exciting work	page-turner
Controlled temperature in tirade	RANT
Cultivate grand argument	GROW
Don’t hit girl	MISS
Endurance of ill-fitting red outfit	FORTITUDE
How erotic is a sauna?	STEAMY
Like some of Bach’s music, full of runs and economical	FRUGAL
Northern people in university computing	INUIT
Part of school I arrange for storyteller	LIAR
Pipe organ I played for two children	pigeon pair
Problem in a rising display of hostility	ANIMUS
Radios covering end of nasty dictatorships	TYRANNIES
Ranch of Ron’s regularly provides fruit	ACORN
Starting a baby is the idea	CONCEPTION
Strike means deduction from pay	STOPPAGE
There is no variation in any case	all the same
Tin on top of long grass	SNITCH
Total love for wrestling	SUMO
Warden puts on a stone; I don’t recognise him	STRANGER
Warning that waiter will get nothing?	tip-off
What baby needs is to sleep with family	NAPKIN
Worry, being mixed race	CARE