The Times - Cryptic - October 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27784
Clues	Answers
A left-winger kept outside party much admired	ADORED
Audible sound of farmyard animal close by makes one more dreamy	moonier
Bag is a pain, being left in street	SACHET
Building given criticism __ one university must replace	STRUCTURE
Church has second gentleman turning up for baptismal robe	CHRISOM
Crustaceans manage when facing groups of whales	copepods
Decorating site for play __ this tells theatre folk what to do	stage direction
Driver of cart taking a road north __ new girl going that way	DRAYMAN
Failure of young socialite star to seal deal finally	DEBACLE
Forces out former leftists after revolution	EXTORTS
Get rid of cherubic child without father and identity	put paid to
Get to meeting with old rocker disgraced at one time	ATTAINTED
Guy in America, about 50, one rushing around	BUSTLER
Home with jazzy style given huge architectural feature	INTRADOS
In the capacity of hut that has to be knocked down	QUASHED
One guided around shop	DELI
Product on sale just before Christmas maybe to become less successful?	DECLINE
Queen with fantastic cat, more than once her destroyer of rodents	rat-catcher
Quiet diocese in which set of holy books is put forward	PROMOTE
Rhapsodic form of modern music, conclusion for concert	RAPT
Rushes to offer cold rather than hot dishes	CURRIES
Scientist builds up from this small amount __ aims at miscount being corrected	atomic mass unit
Swimmers used to swim in West?	MEDUSAE
Those putting coats on horses	PLATERS
Unoriginal journo with requirement to be heard	HACKNEYED
Unselfish group member: 'Pay me later for working''	team player
Width of river accommodating vessels	EXPANSE
Wrench restricting one part of body or another	rear-end
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1713
Clues	Answers
Bridge __ that's played with cards	PONTOON
Cereal in barley recently sent up	RYE
Cleaner leech	SPONGE
Fine South coast resort neither opens nor closes	RIGHTO
Free and threatening, as a whole	at large
Happy to gather copper, type of metal	MERCURY
Icy: uncle slipping about __ hard to keep one's balance on this	UNICYCLE
Instant trap so designed for dinosaur	TRICERATOPS
Join one end, firstly	UNITE
Latvian originally admitted to being a different European	BELGIAN
One's days are numbered	CALENDAR
Past one's peak?	over the hill
Rate adjusted to accommodate ten more	EXTRA
Sauce eaten by colossal savage	SALSA
Scaredy-cat animal	CHICKEN
Seed in banana republic to enter Wimbledon, finally	ACORN
Sheep in tree, we hear!	EWE
Split, one hundred remaining	CLEFT
Staff trimmed in style	crew cut
Start with support for member, developing flier	GOSLING
Support vertebral area	BACK
Sweets in tin daddy emptied	CANDY
Unfortunate act ends melody	DESCANT
Very, very unremarkable	so-so