The Times - Cryptic - October 31 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27183
Clues	Answers
Article you once left incomplete	THE
Close friend frequently mislaying ring before journey	alter ego
Country with no popular resort	SPA
Detective frequently spotted in school canteen?	DICK
Drop in property rental is disappointing	letting down
Dry, short reference penned by politician	torrefy
Entreat her, nastily intimidating one	THREATENER
Escorted solicitor round old fair	took out
Fool suggesting somewhere to eat in Times Square?	NINNY
Front torn off, making alterations to decorative fabric	HANGING
Function of heads of state in Near East	SINE
Geezer extremely wary about fish smell	wide boy
Here we go __ breathing with difficulty, lacking energy	WHEE
Husband noticed gossip standing up in laundry	bagwash
Kid coming in to consider employment as story-teller	RACONTEUSE
Like colour of North African city, grey? Not right	ORANGEY
Mate excitedly clutches extremely useful trinket	AMULET
Maybe one moving round capital city gets the bird	BUDGERIGAR
Model Charley and Pat constructed	ARCHETYPAL
Notice of delivery agreement: I prematurely terminated one	CONTRACTION
One way to dispose of European dog	e-tail
Perky neighbour in a street in south coast town	bright as a button
Publish a book in anger	put about
Question master in quiz broadcast between Greek and Italian men	grand inquisitor
Singer not allowed to be heard in transmission of sorts	BASEBAND
Somewhere to eat in Times Square	MESS
Storm cone atop completely borderless city	TORONTO
What new school must first do to make progress	get ahead
Wife wants absolute guarantee	WARRANT
Yikes! No turning back for statesman	AMISS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1212
Clues	Answers
A little peach, occasionally sweet	CHOC
A royal primarily in woven satin, Russian empress	TSARINA
Ancient city, portion in South Africa	SPARTA
Bloomer getting daughter into other dodgy card game	red-hot poker
Bold leader in historic Scottish city	PERTH
Card carrying first of nine spots	ACNE
Catch tail-enders in Australian side, distraught	NET
Changing, triangle shatters	ALTERING
Cook retains right sieve	STRAINER
Darkness close, end of daylight	NIGHT
God a degree above king and queen!	MAKER
Letters stolen by bitter evangelist	APOSTLE
Loathing crimson fez, perhaps?	HATRED
Long twelve months before end of recession	YEARN
Motorbike attachment that's hurried, is the wrong way up	SIDECAR
Odd way to introduce series	STRANGE
Person throwing jug	PITCHER
Road hazard, this half visible in Dorset town	POTHOLE
Search briefly for toilet	LOO
Stage player originally cast to appear in upcoming schedule	ACTOR
Still owed? Wonderful!	OUTSTANDING
The last reshuffles in secrecy	STEALTH
Versus a profit, loss finally beginning to tell	AGAINST
Wrong, a girl	AMISS