The Times Cryptic November 16 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27823
Clues	Answers
Beneficiary from shelter crossing northern street	LEGATEE
Blunder into rocky peak, provoking panic	TERROR
Body of people almost dry up on stage	CORPS
Broadcast by possible porter's best friend?	AIREDALE
Captain beginning to steam fish	SKIPPER
Cloisters of church outside a London complex	COLONNADE
Debris Oscar removed from Motown, America	DETRITUS
Developing hospital backed with little money	NASCENT
Displaying frivolity in speech about quartz, for example	SILICA
Game birds snatching feed in river	great ouse
Halogen one old woman upset	IODINE
Idiot greeting King Edward's tailor	CLOTHIER
Individual in Greece, one with no future	GONER
Kitchen appliance knocked out of shape	STOVE
Leader of yobs beheaded bird? That's disgusting!	YUCK
Memorable moments familiar to hairstylists?	HIGHLIGHTS
Moan excessively, to who'll listen, having excess of vegetation?	OVERGROWN
More hazardous trail regularly taken by winter sportsperson	RISKIER
Oval dish __ a novel type to begin with	ASHET
Pops up to get favourable slant from doctor?	SPIN
Precedent that's no longer enough?	EXAMPLE
Record thus maintained primarily in racecourse	EPSOM
Sadly premature, accepting troop leader's old hearing aid	ear trumpet
Scene of siege currently associated with good fortune	LUCKNOW
Scholar head of academy can put in directory	LATINIST
Scottish dish, good one, consumed by ugly old women	HAGGIS
Sly person losing wife's support	EASEL
Source of inspiration right behind miners' union's top figure	NUMERATOR
Stories about soldiers in scene of conflict	ARENA
Strain shown by, say, future head	TENSENESS
Tree-dweller father observed crossing railway	DRYAD
Unusually stoical, extremely smooth, medieval annotator	SCHOLIAST
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1745
Clues	Answers
Animal savaged Edinburgh's foremost author	A A Milne
Applaud catch that's rubbish?	CLAPTRAP
Assassin hiding in town in Japan	NINJA
Bedcover has colour that is turning blue	EIDERDOWN
Benefit sheltering theologian in breeze	DODDLE
Bumpkin holding hearts in game	PHEASANT
Carer she misled in fact-finding	RESEARCH
Comprehensive with no spare places?	FULL
Describe partner that was unattractive	EXPLAIN
Fast driver expert in Rolls-Royce	RACER
First course study with French department	CONSOMME
Game is on TV __ fee to be arranged	Eton fives
Leopard one breathless catching horse?	PANTHER
Low feeling daughter ignored	MOO
New beer knocked back in style	ELAN
Personage finally opening show?	EVENT
Race generating more than local interest?	NATIONAL
Rental contract to satisfy without pressure at first	LEASE
Shakespeare nasty about Romeo	BARD
Shell in Aleppo detonates	POD
Small vehicle showing damage	SCAR
Supreme creator gets racket on ball	ODIN
Tea bag so explosively causes destruction	SABOTAGE
The setter's rich source	MINE
Where one grows fruit or vegetable	ORCHARD
Write critical assessment on Panorama?	REVIEW