The Times - Cryptic - November 15 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27196
Clues	Answers
Act of worship no longer being kept on hold?	OFFICE
Against Parisian that abandons collector's item	ANTI
Blunt men taking in a museum keeper	CURATOR
Chap briefly invested in farmland? That's open to debate	ARGUABLE
Deliver a rocket, blowing up a dictator there	read the riot act
Emperor's hesitation to appear in Japanese drama	NERO
Gen boys misused? Let them be themselves	BYGONES
Get the better of blooming Scotsman you once put up	OUTJOCKEY
Girl's gain secured by climbing mountain	ANNETTE
Goodman's sound fortune's talked of in European union	BENELUX
Hamlet's rest? As interrupted by the French	SILENCE
High-flyer from Kentucky by lake in Channel Island	SKYLARK
Journalist wearing flashy jewels takes to new dog	BEDLINGTON
Li'l cartoon hero mostly kept in and denied	ABNEGATED
Like a polar phenomenon initially recognised in a university exam	AURORAL
Neat newly-wed touring key academic institutions	OXBRIDGE
One with pride in Sir Tristram's birthplace, do we hear?	LIONESS
Outburst by a politician __ it's to do with taste	GUSTATORY
Person funding music reproduction maybe one that lists our faults?	recording angel
Pigeon buff going over story on radio	FANTAIL
Presumably they permit certain forms of communication	LETTERS
Set about English mob half-heartedly responding to direction	STEERABLE
Sexton's bag is placed in quarters, centrally	SACRIST
Specialist painter, one earning right to be accepted	grainer
Unscrupulous lawyer __ some pushy stereotype	SHYSTER
Up-and-coming leftist's equestrian technique	rising trot
Woman's goodness about accommodating retired lieutenant	MYRTLE
Writer James gets run over in colony of birds	HERONRY
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1223
Clues	Answers
Al came up seething: my fault	mea culpa
Annoy posh chap quaffing last drops of champagne and wine	tee off
Celebrator of haggis goes up in flames	BURNS
Complete Charlie chucked off boat	UTTER
Die? It's what all frogs do	CROAK
Forces entry: banker is disturbed	breaks in
Get priest ready for Liverpool or Derby?	prime minister
Hide, being almost completely broke	SKIN
Inch perfect? Just the opposite	INEXACT
LA heavies spotted in the Lakes?	LAGOONS
Lots of fluffy dogs without a lead	OODLES
Millicent re-emerges holding starter	ENTREE
Navy, one doing badly	INDIGO
Old church overlooking an expanse of water	OCEAN
Opera star keen to make a comeback	DIVA
Pet duck found in Ministry of Defence	MOOD
Picture of pilgrimage half obscured	IMAGE
Poisoner caught by snare I set in motion	ARSENIC
Queen comes a cropper, sight the tourists flock to see	victoria falls
Reportedly supervises abroad	OVERSEAS
Sally grabs bishop, foaming at the mouth	RABID
Son hits a drunk? Wow!	ASTONISH
Start working in Hollywood?	ONSET
Try, after husband leaves home, to be serious	EARNEST
US prosecutor entertaining a “companion” in country house	DACHA
Very, very big upset, or just middling?	so-so