The Times Cryptic December 10 2020 Crossword Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27844
Clues	Answers
Argument that has a point	QUARREL
Around academic award, drop a controversial strategy	road map
Celebrate getting rid of junk?	push the boat out
Cold scrap of food scoffed by Welshman: then seconds	REMORSELESS
Denouement in story written up in programmes	AGENDAS
Eggs __ one of three stepped on in car?	CLUTCH
Financial concern __ would that discourage one from acting?	negative equity
Go after model, painter backing his ability?	ARTISTRY
Guess appropriate power coming from on high	divine right
Have masks of course on companion, covering over part of face	EYEPATCH
Heartless old jailer producing dead duck	TURKEY
Home game, they said, that's tasty in Southeast Asia?	pad thai
Huge region needing no introduction, part of SW Europe	IBERIA
Mourn grouse after odd parts plucked	RUE
Natural pull, upwards	GUT
Note tremolo after passing note	DEMISEMIQUAVER
Others distressed about a faculty's range	EARSHOT
Person loved clothing with strip of material	BANDEAU
Political activity born in abandonment of religion, etc	ELECTIONEERING
Prince a little bit of a pig?	HAMLET
Second stone collected by relative cracks it open	INSTANT
Sing with cape on in dance	HORNPIPE
Source of oil on end of mantelpiece, alongside source of milk	tea tree
Taking advantage of the situation, capital invested in rubbishing of poor MP	OPPORTUNISM
Taste set dinner with mustard and cress, primarily, in a salad	DISCERNMENT
Tight-lipped, one raising issue	MUM
Typical value, fraction reduced	PAR
Where choppers found cutting into the lip or tongue	HELIPORT
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1763
Clues	Answers
A grate leaving a small gap?	AJAR
Among bananas, a different fruit	MANGO
Barges Les manoeuvred around front of ship	ELBOWS
Bishop with skill, fine composer	BARTOK
Catchy tune from Jack by the fireplace	JINGLE
Cheers up, on course to get fit	ATTACK
Chef having bottom pinched: that’s a surprise!	COO
Choice digging tool	PICK
Deny King Edward, for example, has returned	REBUT
Dishevelled drunk emptying pockets	UNKEMPT
Documents quietly placed on copiers	PAPERS
Ed’s escaped from evil, incendiary band!	WICK
Fights to obtain what’s missing for air raid precautions	BLACKOUTS
Finally got us hose for clumps of grass	TUSSOCKS
Foolish person’s face might have this urge	egg on
For safety’s sake a motorist should be quiet!	belt up
Girl’s cosy home, close to Chelsea	NESTA
Go close, ignoring a person beyond help?	GONER
Imposing jiujitsu __ guards to mount displays	AUGUST
Kilns we built specially for seafood	WINKLES
Letters to acquire at cricket ground	LANDLORDS
No fewer than twelve ultimately entering after all	at least
Old boxer appearing in tabloid regularly	ALI
Record to have when going across mountains	ALPS
Rex needs a break __ most unusual	RAREST
Ring salesman, perhaps, to scoff, around spring	JEWELLER
Shelled nuts beside vase making quite a change!	U-turn
Wise words show real brains, primarily	PROVERB