The Times - Cryptic - August 12 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27741
Clues	Answers
A person ends short trip in general store	one-stop shop
Bachelor place Dorothy visits to see sketch writer	BOZ
Book token given by wife __ and with it, nothing	Women in Love
Challenge on reflection no good: how to go from London to Leeds?	IMPUGN
Drawing you had coloured a certain way	tie-dyed
Easy reward from getting on line?	money for old rope
Fellow with TV spots royal photographer	SNOWDON
Fights to finish or to drive out soliciting?	SHOOTOUTS
Furniture you'll find in different sorts of theatre	DRESSER
Ladies, staying on, visit New Zealand tourist attraction	london zoo
Lady briefly taking you for a Parisian in fact	DATUM
Laments day-old fails	MONODIES
Leaving possible heir a dodgy business?	goings-on
Moderating playtime instruction often led by ma	non troppo
Narrator's understood the reader's older	SENIOR
New MP, one come to help folk in general	the common people
Once on the outside, we start to work in tandem?	two-seater
One outlet accepts new coin	INVENT
One shoe, not quite the pair, going with it	SABOT
Painter papers around bottom right corner made ready	MONETISED
Paranoid old ruler putting Trotsky on trial briefly	LEONTES
Press chief with another cider, too inebriated!	COEDITOR
Refuse when beginning to recycle to break bed down	DROSS
Retroaction not oddly one to inspire	ERATO
Run away from anger and depression in Greece	TEMPE
Sound unstressed after chief visiting was abused	SCHWA
Stop working because of line in operating system	down tools
Stupid that hotel do only flipping sandwiches!	NOODLE
That's a surprise, the Hoops eclipsing Hearts	OHO
Witness, removed from case, won't peach	ONLOOKER
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1677
Clues	Answers
Acclaim __ Conservative meeting left-winger gets it	CREDIT
Arguments in studios apt to get out of control	DISPUTATIONS
Asti on tap __ novel provision for start of Italian meal	ANTIPASTO
Badger-like creature surprisingly alert	RATEL
Boxer went to ground briefly	ALI
Broody writers this writer's taken after	PENSIVE
Cells with circular shape, having very small area	OVA
Dance in a state of oblivion	LIMBO
Decay in small green vegetable or shrub	PROTEA
Fool nabbed by servant in corridor	PASSAGE
Former member of the Lords? That is right	EARLIER
Full relief after only 50 per cent relief brings freedom	RELEASE
Having no weapons and lacking ability to punch, say?	UNARMED
Her good faith sorted out answer to alcohol problem?	hair of the dog
Part of flight from Budapest airport	STAIR
Perceive the true nature of what must be transparent?	see through
Picture of prisoner brought to India	ICON
Soldiers having drinks with recreational drug get ill again	RELAPSE
Street set up trial runs	TESTS
Those people, leaders of English Society, offering ideas	THEMES
Too restricted by ceremonial sometimes	ALSO
Top lady entertained by excellent boozers	TOPERS
Trendy church's leader, silly rector is wrong	INCORRECT
Where a rat's destroyed a bird	SHEARWATER