The Times - Cryptic - October 2 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27785
Clues	Answers
African port barrels India imported	TUNIS
Are current lines and numbers entered first?	area code
At last stubbly nurse got reconditioned shaver	YOUNGSTER
Boy comes up on track, not taking a breather	NOSTRIL
Cheat Charlie Houseman for one	DOC
Crashed on a safari in two races?	afro-asian
Creepy posh governess nurses cold	UNCANNY
Curious type using hooter when leaving car?	nosey parker
Current rules reversed about greeting that's heard in Kenya	SWAHILI
Deep source of power, perhaps	MAIN
Flower an officer's put around Hollywood citizen	ALKANET
Get bigger people to stand in for us during month	AUGMENT
Go off with a gun, returning for timepiece	REGULATOR
Heath left after miners, indicating figures	NUMERICAL
Heave goods around area	GAG
Just receiving training in public	OPENLY
Like columns to be representative, not conservative	IONIC
Mark is not quite on time getting into ground	PUNCTUATION
One who endorses roasting absurd play's conclusion	SIGNATORY
Part-time judge has clubs stolen? Send for more	REORDER
Pity about Europe wasting its money, some in India	RUPEE
Primate, old, managed grand university function	orang-utan
Record traveller's memory	EPROM
Rely on foul saving time for wing	ELYTRON
Reportedly, what our energy bill is based on?	watt-hour
Steer round extremely nasty stone	ONYX
Swimmer's more fashionable without a top	OTTER
The German Times? It's a classic	DERBY
Thoroughly popular team dismissed	inside out
What malingerer has picked up that's in his cellar?	CHAMPAGNE
Where to cultivate fruit or vegetable	ORCHARD
Withdraw actual line about to be introduced	RECALL
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1714
Clues	Answers
Airmen coming north a long way	FAR
Ancient silver beads oddly missing	AGED
Ancient trade route composed of dark soil	Silk Road
British school's for French people	BRETONS
Comedian's “yes” to German upset salesperson	JAPER
Daytime Brexit broadcast making use of both Left and Right?	AMBIDEXTERITY
European trapped in loo: self-esteem to drop!	leave go
Hang around some cathedral in Germany	LINGER
Harmony of form, a sort of m-mystery!	SYMMETRY
Hear about tragic king meeting knight	LEARN
Like pitch Jack's seen near railway	TARRY
No longer like to fall asleep, as alarm may?	go off
Old African colonel initially grinning as dull dignitaries all file in	GADDAFI
One using ruler from Middle East, a certain king	MEASURER
Organise race series	RUN
Pickle __ or something sweeter	JAM
Post Office New York state's used for letter delivery system once	pony express
Rent holiday place on the Adriatic	SPLIT
Rival groups, leaderless, demand to enter thus	them and us
Rock in river covering snakelike fish	REEL
See director general close to some gatekeeper's house	LODGE
Some wine Brian takes getting him drunk?	INEBRIANT
Something sandy or maroon?	DESERT
Stick flexible as putty	stay put
Trouble the setter is going to!	ILL
Unusual to have year in exotic capital	ATYPICAL