The Times Cryptic December 1 2020 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27836
Clues	Answers
A case of resident saving no time at all?	NOMINATIVE
A doctor in South America listening to this?	SAMBA
Ancient medal I've restored	MEDIEVAL
Applause for royal flush?	HAND
Bashful girl, they say, this Indian	CHEYENNE
Can one forgive what's written by Her Majesty?	PARDONER
Criticise a financial centre's greed	RAPACITY
Cut Peter out, bring Charlie in	DICE
Dawn and Victor in a hole	ADVENT
Escort booting out husband who's on drugs	USER
First two leaving subdued and tense	STRAINED
Food at back only half edible	TABLE
Israelite's manly drink?	HEBREW
It's all over for Benito Mussolini	FINITO
Meaning of occasionally steamy goings-on?	SEMANTICS
Owl, might one say: once an opponent of the king?	PARLIAMENTARIAN
Paintings returned __ and poetry? It makes you cross	TRAVERSE
Pie-maker about to be put in jail	PECAN
Poor female host Helen, lonely and unloved?	on the shelf
Proposal Athens rejected in part, sad to say	ALAS
Refugee finding foreign article in river	EXILE
Review fee for Bible class?	RECONSIDERATION
Secret society disposing of leader in Marrakesh house	RIAD
Settlers built grand minarets	EMIGRANTS
Sympathise with beer guzzling bishop in Nice	AGREEABLE
Want dress jazzed up for swingers' club?	St Andrews
Way in which you might make money abroad	wall street
Weak policeman deserving prison	WANDSWORTH
Wife that was cheeky and clever	EXPERT
Writer of panache newspaper advanced	BIRO
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1756
Clues	Answers
A court visit upset campaigner	ACTIVIST
After ex moves, having no liability to Revenue	tax-free
Both sides in the Rugby like nice fabric material	TERYLENE
Commit to memory name of king, northern	LEARN
Contrive dishonest outcome of snooker game	FRAME
Country lads love Niamh's clothes	SLOVENIA
Draw neckwear item	TIE
Fish aunt prepared	TUNA
Grain, local, the French buy finally	BARLEY
Idiosyncrasy of returning book unopened	FOIBLE
In flexible way making provision	SUPPLY
Irritate using a word of refusal in New York	ANNOY
Keep an eye on poetry in Old English	OVERSEE
Long-distance traveller, name, international players recalled	SPACEMAN
Modern territory frequently linked with courage	state-of-the-art
Note your rival __ somehow radically different	REVOLUTIONARY
Poles in characteristic passage	TRANSIT
Reduce church work	CHOP
Reveal contents of text by model	EXPOSE
Ruler's talk seems all right initially	TSAR
Saucy dance?	SALSA
Song, popular, I adapted, in part	ARIA
Special fuel, I hesitate to say, that's given away too much	SPOILER
US politician's weakness over gift I'd put in	vice president
Vehicle, one held in reserve, coming up	BUS