The Times - Cryptic - March 23 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26993
Clues	Answers
Author off the booze, hiding last three bits of it	ALCOTT
Cases of pastry rise: nice automation from a range	PYRENEAN
Celebrity turns introducing actual generic sort	EVERYMAN
Check for what kicks off uncivilised youth	CHILD
Cook crumble crust for holiday visitor to Oz	DOROTHY
Criminal charge overturned and conviction not completed? Sweet!	PARFAIT
Crooked law's introduction fills in the act	ATILT
Dance recalled in church with similar origins	COGNATE
Distil studies into solid form with a point	CONDENSE
Give permission to mobile tool to do roaming	APPROVE
Hill-dweller trapping deer pulled back chain	ANKLET
I'm not sure Mass held by boy is what's heard in church	SERMON
Keep gasping about the man's divine collection	PANTHEON
Labour a long time to dress one glam band up	EXERTION
Lack of acceptance underlies small gesture of defiance	SNOOK
Light coverage of US city politicians duped earliest of electors	LAMPSHADE
Micronesian hero adaptable in any circumstances	come rain or shine
Nancy's from big country to the north: I must leave with composure	ASSURED
Note interpolated by Flaubert, maybe concerned with taste	GUSTATIVE
Old Arab king behind time with American exhibitionist	TUSSAUD
Pace restlessly, crushing rustic seed	CHICKPEA
Pours dry type of wine over sink	CESSPIT
Powdered fruit tablets, first couple taken last, swallowed by champion	ALLSPICE
Reports of shots	PHOTOJOURNALISM
Roughly where mother picks up pup to get a snack	CANAPE
Satie mistakenly rounds on downbeat composer	elegiast
Some knitwear to suit an eccentric?	cardy
Sore winner perhaps elected to be annoying	INGRATE
Subgroup of oligarchy enabling predator	HYENA
Trouble with old lady's inflexible views	DOGMA
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1054
Clues	Answers
A head teacher’s content	EACH
Area by railway where air travel the norm?	AVIARY
Article we picked up again	ANEW
Bother filling bag (groan)	AGGRO
Claiming everything, for example, is about spirit	ALLEGING
Disregard sign with no start, or end of message	IGNORE
Drooled off and on, finding caviar	ROE
Fanatic from Zimbabwe’s outside often	ZEALOT
German, maybe teetotaller, going in circles	OTTO
Harsh description of defective Old Testament?	RUTHLESS
Hum as vet reassembles what’s needed	must-have
Initially trite and wholly uninteresting, becoming cheap and tacky	TAWDRY
Left one in short dress to dance about	FROLIC
Old singer troubled by score endlessly	CROSBY
One unsuccessful in different roles	LOSER
Plant scientist into bats, surprisingly	BOTANIST
Pulse started, heart failing	BEAN
Small boy exited finally, giving bow	BEND
Small marsupial tailed black bird	ROO
Small vehicle making permanent mark	SCAR
Stones a couple of bishops breaking the law	RUBBLE
Tiny amphibian of mine can be heard	MINUTE
Values customer, it seems, in part	MERITS
Was threatening, like a drunk the following morning?	hung over
We try a shot that’s far from neat	WATERY
Whingers unsettled composer	GERSHWIN