The Times Cryptic February 17 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27903
Clues	Answers
Agenda revolutionary Law Lord set up in Home Counties	SCHEDULE
Astute waif initially avoided scrap	SHRED
Bloomer in motor race	CARNATION
Bring back control say	REINSTATE
Colleague’s wife teacher stumbled over first	BEDFELLOW
Colour of barrel upset by British private	NUTBROWN
Comely youth in farmstead on island	ADONIS
Communist administrators that endlessly pack Paris, oddly	APPARATCHIKS
Deprived of authority, we’d some pride destroyed	disempowered
Final, formal brushoff for Augustus or Gwen?	dear john letter
Learners of French involved in daring escapades	STUDENTS
Lie by river accommodating alien Yankee craft	BASKETRY
Most advisable to accept the governor’s command	BEHEST
Old French monk? He’s involved with their tempter!	peter the hermit
Plankton: prey rorquals principally swallowed	KRILL
Playing area perfect for some musicians	PITCH
Practised parking English undertaker’s vehicle in road	REHEARSED
Retired teacher greeting Hindu sage	RISHI
Savoury jelly originally served in a popular film	ASPIC
Sell up, leaving island subsequently	LATER
Sensational start to lecture union leader delivered	LURID
Singer reversed test, having ultimately scant appeal	TOMTIT
Slip up in dumbshow, not ignoring Oscar’s mirth	MERRIMENT
Split from company at first, taking holiday, pocketing a grand	CLEAVAGE
Sufficiency of drink surrounding politician on loch	ampleness
Tirade in Irish islands ultimately scathing in tone	HARANGUE
University originally paying part of castle’s running costs	UPKEEP
Wrongdoing of troublesome brat the head expelled	ERROR
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1812
Clues	Answers
A diet not working as remedy	ANTIDOTE
Apt closure ruined one taking financial risk	SPECULATOR
Benefit from changing ending of book	BOON
Cabin sign I add displaying emblem	INSIGNIA
Colourful picture of attempt to follow recordings?	TAPESTRY
Cunning that involves group in execution method	GUILLOTINE
Familiar Sun to Sat?	EVERYDAY
Final score: Ulster beaten	RESULT
For example, 1588 play The Armada, super, finally	YEAR
Group extremely blithe? Very	BEVY
He seeks to damage vehicle fellow reversed	VANDAL
Income range is not initially changed	EARNINGS
Kind newspaperman made offer	TENDERED
Meeting spirited Irishman, civil engineer?	SEANCE
Military vehicle’s fuel container	TANK
One, thick-skinned, who could become richer soon?	RHINOCEROS
Payment by new tenant, important __ one breaks into surprised expression	key money
Pierrot, oddly saucy	PERT
Press club	IRON
Put into liquid in Verdun kitchen	DUNK
Refusal in Paris hearing? Balderdash!	NONSENSE
Silent about speaker, I agreed postponement	MORATORIUM
Small drink brought up: time for larger one?	PINT
Succeed in getting, at the outset, women’s standpoint	WANGLE