The Times - Cryptic - February 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26950
Clues	Answers
A small amount of tin securing knight’s chain	APENNINES
Artistic Italian waterway and Latin quarter of Sorrento	CANALETTO
Backed commercial corporation in fact	DATUM
Bird hit high in the air by large vessel	SKYLARK
Brand awareness to convey coherent message	make sense
Broadcast a child-friendly Q&A about tanks	AQUARIA
Busted a suspect with hand on drug? Could be this	open-and-shut case
Cast? That’s supporting cast	SLING
Climbing high mountain surrounded by prairie	PLAIN
Connoisseur seizing fashionable gnome	FINANCIER
Cool, informed female designer making comeback	SANGFROID
Craft fine cryptic clue, more or less	FELUCCA
Cut down on binding agent?	GLUON
Esoteric worship suppressing New England possession	OWNERSHIP
Ghastly covers of Lou Reed, including a single	LURID
Harry Basset, perhaps	HOUND
He arranged some rags and boots with ends missing	ELLINGTON
Head off lame evildoer’s first trespass	IMPINGE
Invited to accept golf club’s proof of membership?	BADGE
Marshal Pétain trapping peacekeepers before noon with sea power?	NEPTUNIAN
One unlikely to win a race with dimwitted trainer	SLOWCOACH
Pacific nation’s gold in new version of rugby	NAURU
Primrose’s cousin is over 40 and flipping sanctimonious	OXLIP
Some terrific screenwriters around in this genre	sci-fi
Stumbling briefly, hooking drive, making bogey	HOBGOBLIN
US storyteller Remus, perhaps, penning author’s introduction	TWAIN
Vile edict is farcical to wit	VIDELICET
Witches on short mission to seal husband in cooking pot	dutch oven
Worried about group of farmers splitting up communal resource in quantity	DESSERTSPOONFUL
You dated visiting lecturer, a Senior Fellow	DOYEN
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1018
Clues	Answers
Abandon fight	SCRAP
Actress Jean in Essex town	HARLOW
Article in large house that adds taste	VANILLA
Compelling work, foremost of paintings by mature English artist	page-turner
Critic of satirical show heard by Queen	REVIEWER
Exchange views about one pine, perhaps	CONIFER
Finished by attack exposing rook	OVERCHARGE
Guarantee cry of pain after volts applied	VOUCH
Half-naked celebrity	STAR
Hips — a lot replaced here?	HOSPITAL
Just on left, close to lay-by	ONLY
Lack of soil on ground, ultimately	DEARTH
Large number, hundred, abandoning vessel	RAFT
Male whale? Nonsense	BULL
Mimic a bishop on board vessel	PARROT
Nail polish back in style, man explains	ENAMEL
Provide witty remark after end of satire	EQUIP
Relax wearing friend's fur	CHINCHILLA
Seals experience narrow escape	close shave
Shy going to bed	RETIRING
Simple dwellings (play on words)	HOMESPUN
Some clever dick composer	VERDI
Tries an exotic wine	RETSINA
Way to go about home system	ROUTINE