The Times - Cryptic - August 7 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27737
Clues	Answers
A dry agency worker's parting shot	ATTEMPT
Adjust to correct position, touching bottom	RESEAT
An age that's critical during dry season abroad	donkeys years
Briefly turn down side road	SPUR
Decline of oxygen in kiln is concerning	as to
Decrepit little bird found on step	past it
Edible seed, many of which would yield paltry sum	PEANUT
Find fault with expert in orbit	REPROACH
Forced to accept order under contract	PROMISED
I'll appear in another novel, perhaps	ANTIHERO
Italian banker's Oscar-nominated part	ARNO
Large plugs seen and disregarded	SLIGHTED
Latest spacecraft crossing edge of exosphere on time	TARDIEST
Match that professional's taken to heart?	DOUBLES
Old papers in many cases	OFTTIMES
One stirs shortly after meal, papa assumed	TEASPOON
Performing insect begged for food	eggs Benedict
Poser trounced in game	ENIGMA
Ravel's standpoint on hospital discipline?	ENTANGLE
Riskily meddle in passionate drama?	play with fire
Several deliveries arrived crushed	OVERCAME
Sir Thomas's quarry bagged by our opponents, sadly	mores the pity
Speculation lacking in celebrant's likely garb	VESTMENT
Under strain, I move slowly on landing	TAXI
Very quiet man's initially made a false deduction	SOPHISM
Wasn't emu originally a flier?	mute swan
Weak, though extremely willing	THREADY
Where mum joined baby scheme church introduced, with thanks	PLACENTA
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1674
Clues	Answers
A great many nod off when presented to bridge team	DOZENS
A holy man enthralled by E European religious emissary	APOSTLE
Analyse speed of light, getting astronomical distance	PARSEC
Be suspicious of some nonconformist rusticated	MISTRUST
Brown to depart for a dance	TANGO
Chaos seen in Times Square	MESS
Cheese: actor appearing upset with it	RICOTTA
Experts favoured limiting constant expectation	PROSPECT
Fast-moving pedestrian waves and runs beyond girl	roller-skater
Female with weapon in ranch?	FARM
I will leave New Zealand people, returning to travel	ROAM
Impudence, sitting on mother’s last item of crockery	SAUCER
Keen character at the end showing envy after Judge departs	ZEALOUS
Permission to go	LEAVE
Point in Cornwall where you’ll see reptile	LIZARD
Risk enveloping crazier fellows in confusion	BEWILDERMENT
Run and hide	PELT
See both wandering into shops, identifying store for a later date	MOTHBALL
Silly how love and hate both end	INANE
Small book producer, one doing a run	SPRINTER
Strength is recalled not having been used?	SINEW
To support Conservative in boast is wrong as a reassertion of standards	back to basics
Unprecedented cut in money received by story	INCOMPARABLE
Wrecked ship? Curiously intact when one’s boarded	TITANIC