The Times Cryptic December 18 2020 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27851
Clues	Answers
Amazed a bridge player in front of a packed crowd	AWESTRUCK
Billions invested in English medical implant	EMBED
Biting fish swallowing angler's last insect	TRENCHANT
Bold player playing disgracefully	deplorably
Carve cathedral charmingly	CUTELY
Chemically treat disease I found in yellow fruit	fluoridate
Company prospector's casing a source of oil	COPRA
Fancy garlic, perhaps? This may have gone off with exposure	FLASHBULB
Franc note in money box	COFFIN
Freely commercial library	ad-lib
Horse __ one Queen ordered	EQUINE
Humour's eluding oddball	INDULGE
I count on us flying non-stop	CONTINUOUS
In pieces and sure to be put together somehow	ASUNDER
In Scotland, hit old wild dog	DINGO
Is filling a requirement for strong flavouring?	ANISEED
Lack of quality in footwear messes with soles finally	SHODDINESS
Like a pain, one our logic always ignores over admitting answer	NEURALGIC
Like to succeed in ornamental knitting	FANCYWORK
Local resident having no time to be green	NAIVE
Low life, right one, very loud air force female	riff-raff
Not quite all slip home	GAFF
One reportedly burns tough goat	IBEX
Painful phase of tachycardia	ACHY
Prize article mostly secure in box, perhaps	TREASURE
Regularly turn nasty and difficult	TRICKY
Spot sort to use a keyboard	touch-type
State without change, silver, say, and gold	PLATEAU
Sweet bunch, for example with no opportunity to speak outside	NOSEGAY
Title __ Serbia's and Russia's leaders carry it	TSAR
What fighter may carry out through following cunning	FLYBY
What holds oil left in glacial formation	DRUMLIN
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1769
Clues	Answers
A politician receiving duke without preparation	ad lib
Change into suit	BECOME
City area in Northern Ireland originally enticing family member	NIECE
Device some countryfolk need to keep in stock?	cattle grid
Fascinated, being made a slave once	ENTHRALLED
Former priest accommodated by sanctimonious old American	PREVIOUS
Gent regularly tucking into prizewinning mushroom	CHAMPIGNON
Greek character initially eating baked food	PIE
Healthy food for environmentalists	GREENS
Item of jewellery Oscar found in prehistoric tower	BROOCH
Line up briefly for nothing	NIL
Live in luxury, perhaps, with daughter	DWELL
Main directions given by African leader	SEA
Male journalist finally occupied covering conflict	EDWARD
Marsupial known at first over a large area	KOALA
Old Nicaraguan guerrilla group's smuggled goods	CONTRABAND
Polish artwork in stream Caesar crossed	RUBICON
Remains unwanted at first in army corps team	RESIDUE
Shed tears about that woman's fruit	CHERRY
Some choose a reed organ	EAR
Unfashionable garments for the suburbs	OUTSKIRTS
Unusually direct source of pride	CREDIT
Vehicle in which politician and monarch visit Irish county?	camper van
Water moving smoothly in latter part of day?	EVENTIDE