The Times - Cryptic - June 11 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27688
Clues	Answers
Calming report of woman with phobia	SOOTHING
Contemptuous cry about Liberal claptrap	BLAH
Cuts fish by loch, adopting duke’s crooked posture	LOPSIDEDNESS
Dog’s plaything originally designed in SW resort	toy poodle
Expedition missing out top of Umbrian peak	TOR
Fish served by maid primarily in reception room	SALMON
Fisher’s alarm went off at sea around east of Humber	TRAWLERMAN
Gelatinous substance produced by a fish more than once	agar-agar
Hamlet’s odd theory mostly about Polonius’s entrance?	THORPE
In Columbus he lacked a measure of corn	BUSHEL
Jester initially impressing court in northern city	YORICK
Journalist covering current Muslim festival	EID
Light-bearer’s container held back by former queen	candle-holder
Nob accommodating old Italian poet	ARIOSTO
Noted canonical hour, by the sound of it	KNOWN
Novel 1,760-yard hike consuming a couple of days	MIDDLEMARCH
Obscure place to shop, having note for daughter	ARCANE
Old hat banned by doctor penning poem	OUTMODED
Old man from the east with little desire for food?	APPETITE
Popular girl to west of Ohio?	INDIANA
Promotion of article supporting ancient city in EU country	FURTHERANCE
Rocky island in southern Irish county	SKERRY
Rose’s part in Sophocles’s Antigone finally overcoming friend	SEPAL
Russian empress in dire straits over article	TSARITSA
Suitable former exercise regime any number accepted	EXPEDIENT
Time one secures a new opening for Indian cooking	TANDOORI
Travelling US area, Turk delivers cabbage dish	SAUERKRAUT
Unqualified character on the staff	FLAT
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1633
Clues	Answers
Advice about extremely unusual flower	TULIP
Attention new edition deserved	EARNED
Bird’s time for sleep, buffeted by wind?	NIGHTINGALE
County’s employees, ultimately industrious	STAFFS
Design for floor covering	FORMAT
Desire is bringing wife and husband together	WISH
Eating nothing, following a painful little wound	FASTING
Flipping insolence, ghastly for traveller to shrine	PILGRIM
Insect, I wager, is metamorphosing	EARWIG
Lizard lays egg in heath	MONITOR
Making a call, may one have this in one’s ears?	RINGING
Medicine working to stop twitch	TONIC
Not leaving work behind, in a manner of speaking?	talking shop
Not to be approached, like an exhausted kangaroo?	out of bounds
One standing armed at the crossroads?	SIGNPOST
Plea from Somali bishop	ALIBI
Proper-sounding form of service	RITE
Put on scales women’s rowing team shortly	WEIGH
Rap elbow nastily, a bit unwell	below par
Said to take advantage of sheep	EWES
Some polypropylene is of poor quality	ROPY
Stood up on date? That’s rather rude	uncalled-for
That glen is to collapse eventually	at length
Weird Times leader was speculated about	RUMOURED