The Times - Cryptic - January 19 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26939
Clues	Answers
A lot to bear with difficulty from Cockney youth	UMPTEEN
Avoiding blame when our language teaching gets no backing	TEFLON
Cod with unpleasant smell circling round one’s washing	shampooing
Composer not keen on a pop screening please note	OFFENBACH
Content in the style of old magazine?	pleased as punch
Craft displayed by heads of European Science Institutes	LAUNCHES
Demanding head should not be involved in quarrel	TIFF
Girl recalled attempt to chop wood	MYRTLE
Going on pig’s back, following ox with family	YAKKING
Idiotic of doctor cutting French department back	TOMFOOL
It follows return of airmen to this point	thus far
Jersey-carrying possibly affected half-wit catching cold	with calf
Men network at party in US resort	ORLANDO
Not the white team, we hear	YOLK
Papa with family forms to fill out	AMPLIFY
Play set in a Southern English town	STAINES
Potential miss — not entirely upset when it’s enregistered	ERNESTINE
Reinforced building before attack: a healthy practice	keep fit
Rotating machine showing effect of sun after eclipses	CAPSTAN
Rugby player’s sneaky little drink	fly half
Russian leader’s wife volunteers to hide chemical weapon	TSARINA
Shortest section of the track Nine Ladies Dancing	inside lane
Small boy tethers dogs	WESTIES
Too trendy to win round barristers, in general	into the bargain
What was a woolly bear’s extraordinary girth to me!	tiger moth
Where to stand round at breakfast?	toast rack
With pride, she and I performing in reduced circumstances	LIONESS
Woman’s brought up slippers for repairs in cobbler’s?	REHEELS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1009
Clues	Answers
Big and beautiful!	HANDSOME
Blue square	CONSERVATIVE
Boy catches some poetry	SONNETS
Christmas prize giver, heartless	NOEL
Evil is returning with nefarious leader	SIN
Fool, a silly sausage for starters	ASS
Great lover, antipodean native hugging me	ROMEO
Increasing success in sailors' drink	GROWING
Insulin, say, moorhen might produce	HORMONE
Not entirely laid back, bees uniquely busy	in use
Obvious I had to enter competition	EVIDENT
One country or another welcoming almost everyone	AUSTRALIA
Papa's partner embracing good, hot rock	MAGMA
Passing trains, ten diverted	TRANSIENT
Player heading for success prospers: not bad!	sportsperson
Rag: it's arranged for free	GRATIS
Religious education in the morning papers	REAM
Same novel under new titles	NAMES
Somewhat shabby, poor design seen from the back is sagging	DROOPY
Strength — could be	MIGHT
Sucker will disbelieve the basic truth, last of all	LEECH
Type of diving ducks finally seen on island	SCUBA
Very able recruits initially residing in tough US university	HARVARD
Very pale, he's an eccentric	ASHEN
Watch ever so unreliable, black inside	OBSERVE
Wild animals: sharks, we hear?	CHEETAHS