The Times Cryptic November 19 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27826
Clues	Answers
Act like any would, when just starting out	LAW
Advance booking in doubt	RESERVATION
Always giving a positive response	AYE
Blooming lovely is that bit of fighter's kit!	boxing glove
Canoe extracted by archaeologist?	DUGOUT
Endless danger? Gosh __ it's where something is as close as possible!	PERIGEE
Fungus in ground you reported	MILDEW
Gossip, having poured out our drink	RUM
Hasten to border, finally changing direction	NORTHEAST
Hasty author	SWIFT
House that has a Victorian pavilion	LORDS
I turned out to be devoid of proven ability	UNTRIED
Join in urgent message to expose pathetic people	SADDOS
Like some music of Queen in recording	CANNED
Looked again at study needing to get tidied up	Readdressed
Male worker criticises mischievous females	MANTRAPS
Member's movement perhaps supporting country	PRONATION
No one getting cross, rolling round? I sure don't react!	XENON
One has such a car? It brings ruin!	RUNAROUND
One who criticises son, getting less affectionate	SCOLDER
Papa not polite and nice, not one for discretion	PRUDENCE
Poker-faced cleric hugging a daughter quietly	DEADPAN
Religious writings penned by wise man, an English poet	SAVAGE
Report of e.g. copper's courage	METTLE
Revived or new form of green energy getting assessed	REGENERATED
Revolutionary army returning to wreck	MARAT
The old man meeting unhappy woman in US city	PASADENA
This writer's in stupid short trousers	DENIMS
Vice around university? Say not a word	clam up
Way factory gives reason for stop-go procedure	ROADWORKS
What would be found in alphabet hitherto	ETH
Worked in a forest and made slow plodding progress?	LUMBERED
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1748
Clues	Answers
Big picture: someone childless is neither a ____	PANORAMA
Caught husband aboard earlier boat	SCHOONER
Disorderly punk at booze a lot	tank up
Everything in French, one current poem	UNIVERSE
Feel bad about Parisian street	RUE
For example limiting iron temperature gives freedom from danger	SAFETY
Gospel writer is one suitable for swindling	MARK
Innocuous, not at all alluring but not cold	HARMLESS
Leave small portion around to dine on	beat it
Low voice, alien for hound	BASSET
Maybe to vape is popular and healthy	INHALE
Mix juice and yellow colouring	JAUNDICE
Occasion to forget married bond	TIE
One half of sermon getting into goodness and suffering	MISERY
Part of collection put back in small room	CELL
Perhaps Busby and Queen are important	MATTER
Piece of furniture is tops in school of fine art	SOFA
Pleased with good boy	GLAD
Prize public house within ancient city	TROPHY
Recall top couples in Melton Mowbray and Rydal	MEMORY
Second promise to produce weapon	SWORD
Snarl up net that has twisted corner	ENTANGLE
Spoken for, Val needing no introductions	ORAL
Staff turn tropical fruit	MANGO
Unhealthy announcement of further offer	MORBID
Work up to time without good health	TILL