The Times Cryptic December 15 2020 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27848
Clues	Answers
A harsh, restricted lifestyle in productive industry	AGRICULTURE
Alpha males engaged in welcome correspondence	AGREEMENT
Ambassador's worried about technology delay	HESITATE
Anarchic Senorita disregarding king and country	ESTONIA
Arduous time following drunkard's last dry spell	DROUGHT
Argument with servicemen raised	ROW
Arrived on pitch behind gunners, wary of being shot	camera-shy
Autocrat's bizarre act stops journalist dropping leader	DICTATOR
Before service, sailor curses?	ABUSE
Bird nesting in the said overturned bush	HIBISCUS
Border south of duke's abode	DWELT
Brewing ingredient? It's put back in still	YEAST
Cooker installed in N America gets extended service period	NOVENA
Firm female garment, one with hood	COBRA
Haitian gangster moving unnaturally?	against the grain
Intimate debilitating disease that's quite shocking	dear me
Irregular therapy disheartened sufferer	CASUALTY
Mistakenly order action doll operated remotely	radio-controlled
Most fuzzy bats disgust me	smudgiest
Press agent primarily recalled for one period of change	Iron Age
Provokes three cardinals admitting sex	ENGENDERS
Rogue caught accomplice dividing spoils	SCALLYWAG
Ruler's first-rate son leaves suitably dressed and accompanied	Caesar salad
Shoddy attempt to grab what remains	TRASHY
Swayed right away in discussion that went to one's head?	cocked hat
Traffic controller about to enter continental city	COLOGNE
Very penetrating remedy for wind	CURVE
Whinge from Liberal in defeat	BLEAT
Woman in tribunal	UNA
Woman, following bloke, contracted illness	MALADY
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1766
Clues	Answers
Anglo-Saxon writer in Colorado resort	ASPEN
Author of nonsense new to master	LEARN
Chopper in test coming up short	AXE
Commercial in which scene cut to scale	ASCEND
Copper runs to get dog	CUR
Depression confined to beer firm	al dente
Disappointed heir ends date explosively	DISHEARTENED
Garbage force brought in to recycle?	REFUSE
Greek character is nothing fantastic	OMEGA
Keen-eyed alumnus with man	OBSERVANT
Liberal with no previous partner for instance	AMPLE
Like hard wood	ASH
Movie maker collapsed in one	FELLINI
Note called out for a singer	TENOR
Plunder so arranged shows radiance	SPLENDOUR
Programme employed in Copenhagen daily	AGENDA
Secured position moving badger hide	BRIDGEHEAD
Snide lady busted in moral offence	deadly sin
Spread for which I'd turned up behind schedule	DILATE
Squire's way to cross blue river	LANDOWNER
Struggle __ after five, that is	VIE
Supremely evil influence in Chartist reforms	ANTICHRIST
Very old __ and value in it misplaced	ANTEDILUVIAN
What Roman wore round northern kingdom	TONGA