The Times - Cryptic - January 10 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26931
Clues	Answers
Alsatians let loose to find aggressor	ASSAILANT
Approval withheld in retreat?	NOOK
Arab perhaps down for an old movie	horse feathers
Bird black in colour? Not completely!	GREBE
Bloody genius on USA reforms	sanguineous
Celebs refuse to enter Georgia — and it's over	GLITTERATI
Characters from Rye thus observed in Argyle?	ALTERNATELY
Chop's rotten at one end, consumed by rodents	MINCE
Coiffeur in Keighley shows where curlers are found	RINK
Consider some text in manuscript for propriety	SEEMLINESS
Drive out in attempt to cross North Island	BANISH
Drunken priests initially botching psalm in services	BACCHANTES
Eleven minutes after the interval at Lord’s	TEAM
European ensnared in small deception	SLEIGHT
French count runs round for Holy Spirit?	COMFORTER
Gold bangle — asset converted where labourer cleaned up	augean stables
Improvised excellent book about Donegal's borders	ad-lib
Instrument one exported from African country	GAMBA
Liberal revelling in danger in Soviet city	LENINGRAD
MI6 finds relative shortly	SIS
Note adviser initially grasped in left hand	LAH
Our set raving about repair that's fantastic	TREMENDOUS
Paying for others to dine in Hertfordshire town?	TREATING
Singular fruit with perfect flavour	SPEARMINT
Sound final whistle, perhaps, leading to drama	ENDGAME
Stepped over mud outside new Ruhr location	DORTMUND
Superman repelled by feeding dog that lacks tail	CYBORG
Support second article having expunged first	STEM
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1002
Clues	Answers
A corpse: important one?	SOMEBODY
A pastry’s built up in layers	STRATA
Appear, as moths tend to?	come to light
Barrister that’s soft and smooth	SILK
Chap gets older but copes	MANAGES
Deck going up and down	POOP
Everyone in short dash for US city	DALLAS
Express dismay as relative has nothing to eat	GROAN
Going along with others, one’s on foot	in step
I won’t itemise the rest, even quickly	and so on
In Berlin, dainty girl	LINDA
Like some workers, needing houses destroyed	semi-skilled
Match the Devil	LUCIFER
Need just showing self-indulgence	WANTONLY
Pictures came in for restoration	CINEMA
Police force, green, admire criminal	GENDARMERIE
Present of francs given to monarch	OFFER
Proposer is Shaker’s companion?	MOVER
Reasonable-sounding food	FARE
Sheriff’s officer to leave money for waiters	TIPSTAFF
Smear pan to cook cheese	PARMESAN
Tricky problem, brewing artisan beer	brain-teaser
Unfavourable notice on poem	ADVERSE
Very dark in Kentucky	INKY