The Times - Cryptic - September 29 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26843

Clues	Answers
Ancient region largely evacuated before help turned up	LYDIA
Anger, with one enjoying a carefree life cut short	RILE
Bad pud	DUFF
Beginning to seem cool, crime	SIN
Excessively complimentary review in flier	PUFFIN
Festering cricket side	OFF
Fighter starts to box intelligently, presenting defence	ALIBI
Flag lowered finally, miserable in retreat	DROOP
Fruit garden's odd parts fascinate	GREENGAGE
Futile, to be blunt?	POINTLESS
Happy band, distressed	UPSET
He wrote in earnest, even so, needlessly	STEVENSON
Huge disappointment? That's the measure of computing	MEGAFLOP
Offering nothing in classical language, alumnus going first	OBLATION
One must stay in under this	house arrest

 

Clues	Answers
Pirates at sea without a prayer?	PRIEST
Planned debate	DELIBERATE
Post or stick, did you say?	JAMB
Proscribe different tokens for cash	BANKNOTES
Reportedly cross, whimper	MEWL
Romeo in bunk becoming surly	GRUFF
Siren trouble girl raised as blooming deadly thing?	BELLADONNA
Skimpy briefs a possible source of irritation when viewed from behind	TANGA
Sneaky blighter, I'm a con	THIMBLERIG
Son of Jacob nursing swelling, he is lumbered	galumphed
Stop company cutting funds for home protection	DAMPCOURSE
Sweet thing, remarkably genial wife filling in puzzle	belgian waffle
Unexpected U-turn with date and deal complete	UNADULTERATED
Very small place, one secured by girl	LILLIPUTIAN
Was substituted? Strange!	left-field

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 929

Clues	Answers
A doctrine rewritten in new edition	REDACTION
Artificial language I study	IDO
Brought low and embarrassed? Not hard	ABASED
Character to go round in circles, we hear	ROLE
Country home to the east of health centre	SPAIN
Distance achieved by bird, heading off	INCH
Father meets Irish couple	PAIR
Give university lecturer freshly made tea	DONATE
Gossips outside the French holiday accommodation	CHALETS
Lacking skill is party game for children	i-spy
Lib ranter who upset one of the extended family	brother-in-law
Local types I'd ordered around like a tyrant	DESPOTICALLY
Make a hole in fabric	DRILL

 

Clues	Answers
Name inscribed in a medal, prepared for old statesman	MANDELA
Not moving yet	STILL
Numbers attached to equipment for small pets	KITTENS
Old person showing wisdom, native American	OSAGE
Pagan god astride unusual throne in temple	PARTHENON
Period in which maiden's removed link	TIE
See someone who was once President	LINCOLN
Something spotted in a game of chance?	DIE
State requirement for one with hole in jumper?	new jersey
Times in which one gets some sort of railway hold-ups	DELAYS
Unhappy workers finally given notice	SAD
What helps one remember to snatch a rest	REMAINDER
Work set up around a king in Polish city	KRAKOW