The Times - Cryptic - January 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26923
Clues	Answers
Almost engage with wise text	MESSAGE
Arab enemy I shot	YEMENI
Conservative search for gain	CONQUEST
Cooked seafood in hold without oxygen, not with it	old-fashioned
Cut off a bit, like	of a piece
Endless wine is knocked back, boding no good	SINISTER
England regularly failing, dammit	EGAD
Free beer drunk in turn — got it down, not for the first time	RELAID
Fresh out of good books, one may be under one’s feet	INSOLE
Girl comes to a celebration of workers of mine	GALA
Hated being dropped from international match?	DETESTED
In your study, barely noticeable	THREADY
Making possible showy accessories woman put on	ENABLING
Monster deity’s worse, we hear	GODZILLA
Old craft has special terminology, but no tips	ARGO
One not going off with European dandy	DUDE
Oriental canoe changes hands, that’s the last you hear	EPILOGUE
Paper in which John played good game	mah-jongg
Pole who has only three fellow employees?	QUARTERSTAFF
Rays steadily caused damage? Not sure yet	its early days
Smoother, crossing hands here to play	rubber bridge
Sorry there’s no proper leader for the paper	ASHAMED
Special one from among a number ceased to exist: one less	INTENDED
The very thing dividing boy and girl is splitting sides?	HILARITY
Took, say, cooker and sank teeth in	HOBBIT
Trouble-making horse, one ladies at hotel backed	HOOLIGAN
Turned up miserable, chilling line in poem	LYCIDAS
Wizened personnel in a sort of garden	SHRUNKEN
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 995
Clues	Answers
A place to sleep, some say, in California's big cities	CAPITALS
Adult articulated complaint before the judge	grown-up
Close relatives are visiting home	NEAREST
Do away with prison cell briefly	CANCEL
Effective medicine? Criticise one with added vitamin	PANACEA
Famous person suffering setback in Arab elections	CELEB
Fellow author's work oddly included in erotic novel	co-writer
Food and drink always provided after church	CHEER
How to water a bunch of flowers?	SPRAY
Inclined to steal lamp, getting rumbled	light-fingered
Initially bored as you view US TV series	BAYWATCH
Job for which the charges are small?	baby-sitting
Lady performing with trio in skilful way	ADROITLY
North Africans affected by rain and gales	ALGERIANS
Opportunist has change of heart, becoming poet	CHAUCER
Portion of oil in this dressing	LINT
Royal Engineer's forged papers	SAPPER
Sailor's expression of gratitude, reaching harbour at last	TAR
School transport	TRAIN
Ship — large one — with name “Queen Elizabeth”	LINER
Sound made by dove and another bird mostly	COO
There's no time for Morocco's mountains, unfortunately	ALAS
Tread the boards at Criterion theatre, taking leading parts	ACT
Vicious gossip's molar?	BACKBITER
Woman left home with American attorney	LINDA
Wonder Woman's first admitted to A & E	AWE