The Times - Cryptic - June 22 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27697
Clues	Answers
A good universal cure ultimately for malarial fever	AGUE
Acceptable footwear sailor finally carried towards land	ONSHORE
Aim to plug old piece of furniture that can be lengthened	extendable
Antibody ailing gut badly needs initially	AGGLUTININ
Aquatic plant identified by many around university	LOTUS
Architect and town planner set up two hospitals	NASH
Bones Charlie removed from southern African capital	SACRA
Cleaning brass? It’s an illegal activity	money laundering
Composer and Arctic explorer in one	ROSSINI
Crown representative up north in ravine near choppy lake	governor general
Cut back primarily on game	POLO
Do not put up with it casually at first!	TONIC
Having brought up weapon, secure a lump of gold	NUGGET
Head of garrison more disposed to accept new infantryman	GRENADIER
Instrument dismissed husband used to stab Welsh buccaneer	mouth organ
It cuts tax, giving rise to unbecoming jocularity	LEVITY
Like a type of music exam taken after church	CHORAL
Man decapitated before autumn, when it gets dark	NIGHTFALL
Neat point about turnover of the old plant	OXEYE
New puppies possibly born in rubbish receptacle	litter bin
Old bachelors engineered goal : it’s essential to the score	OBBLIGATO
One’s associated with a former politician’s excuses	ALIBIS
Rock plant lovers mostly want cultivated	navelwort
Sack Liberal leaving for dire crusade	PILGRIMAGE
Tea and fruit taken round east of the Lizard?	CHAMELEON
Tease lad eating core of rotting apple	RIBSTON
They help us to see tiny spots, we hear	SPECS
Tower completely infested by nasty bug	TUGBOAT
Useless-sounding vessel	VEIN
Write someone else’s book? That’s the spirit	GHOST
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1640
Clues	Answers
Alien after map for Mars, say?	PLANET
Bloom sprang up	ROSE
By the sound of it, drops of water on grass expected	DUE
Concern where painter's daubed	PERTAIN
Divorce somewhere in Croatia	SPLIT
Enlarge woven blanket	GENERAL
Firm belief in man's best friend, mother	DOGMA
First note something reinvigorating	TONIC
Force politician into fabrication of lie	IMPEL
Introduce nutty dip	REDUCTION
Keen, agree to dance	EAGER
Loser initially on snakes __ these better?	LADDERS
Nothing new in literature, originally	NIL
Old Peruvian ancestry shining brightly	INCANDESCENT
One way heart's not breaking	north-east
Proper ceremony announced	RIGHT
Remove dirt and make a fortune?	clean up
Runner, one between two runs	RACER
Second article removed from book, declare invalid	ANNUL
Someone who tests old flame, a collier	EXAMINER
Stretch one leg, at random	ELONGATE
Support letters being rewritten	TRESTLE
Turn sea into land	ESTONIA
Unconscious energy in lapse, unfortunately	ASLEEP
Where distance takes its toll, ultimately	in the long run
Work found in bookshop, usually	OPUS