The Times - Cryptic - August 14 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27743
Clues	Answers
A fine considerably limits current liaison	AFFAIR
A German tabloid's taken over with no preparation	ad-lib
Baby carriers, say, losing temperature, one concludes	UTERI
Bloke's not entirely likeable group's breaking camp	HISTRIONIC
Catty Pope?	LEONINE
Copier a chap uses in novel	AMANUENSIS
Custody battle ended shortly after flu got out of control	tug-of-love
Deadlock: four leave showing no emotion	IMPASSE
Dick, not working, takes female out for a short time	DETECTIVE
Diner supplied sandwiches, building support	SCAFFOLD
Doubt about chopped ice in packs for boxing	FISTICUFFS
Drink drug in round tin	OCEAN
Editor recruits staff to do what he does	EMEND
Fastest runner caught __ he can't stand up	CHEETAH
Find spice regularly in the Orient? Nothing's simpler	EASIEST
For which tours are organised?	EUROSTAR
Forty winks? Just under twelve	DOZE
Green film about operating organ	ECONOMIST
Happy union's no-score draw?	love match
Husband abandons razor perhaps that preserves his dignity?	face-saver
I don't give a fig about southern party	BASH
Indulged in odd places between jobs?	IDLE
Large individual, Edward VII acquiring name as this	LIBERTINE
Left old friend casing clubs in the area	LOCALLY
Let special medical team cut open Marxist?	RENTED
Lifted plump cheese to find crisp material	TAFFETA
Noble Oscar shed clothes	BARON
Pity old queen having to face cross physicist	RUTHERFORD
Pool worker one goes in to look up in Times	TYPIST
Stuck first of borrowed money in Oslo	BORE
Swill King George brought up, breaking wind	GARGLE
Wax cylinder recorder	TAPER
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1679
Clues	Answers
A charge for crossing southern islands	ATOLLS
City score, retaining ball	TROY
Complaint from youth in spring month	MALADY
Cooking vessel in sink	POT
County for male deer	BUCKS
Crowd inside Guantanamo Bay	MOB
Cunning schemes Friar Tuck conceals	ART
Devour pork for instance without starter	EAT
Dicky entered as Walford resident?	EASTENDER
Disbark in flames	ALIGHT
Fancy basin containing round miniature plant	BONSAI
Four stuck into the drink __ bubbly?	ALIVE
Game ending in draw?	LOTTERY
Glorious under the Linden tree?	SUBLIME
In which bars have swingers who score?	table football
Indifferent over after spinner on song initially	so-so
Landowner in den with duke	LAIRD
Moody Maureen meets another woman	MOROSE
Mutating mallard duck devours one animal	ARMADILLO
Rather younger elder?	SAPLING
Small fruit with perfect flavour	SPEARMINT
Soldier and sailor back after leave	desert rat
Speak pompously about knight decorated	ORNATE
Stain ruined shiny material	SATIN
Statement true about city dumping yen	RECITAL
Subtle changes besetting one laying out money for underwear	suspender belt