The Times Cryptic April 9 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27947
Clues	Answers
A musical director, I'm involved with orchestra	CHOIRMASTER
Be disputatious and pushy, displaying some craft	row barge
Conflict appearing regularly at the heart of newswriting in capitals?	world war two
Coward's work in November storm, throwing wobbly	mrs worthington
Date with old female I persuade to make a special effort	go out of ones way
Defence in question again	REDOUBT
Dracula, perhaps, put on a cape, one in red or black?	ACCOUNT
Equip exhibition centre with computers, block finally to be carpeted	get it in the neck
Flash Police Sergeant displaying muscle	TRICEPS
Impossible to find who's originally featured in drama once before	NOWHERE
In which to be either bored or excited?	RUT
Journalist's cardinal sin cancelling home visits	NEWSMAN
Make bears, maybe, behave like hawks?	sabre-rattle
Minute spinner played best	RECORD
One maybe giving drug in city to junior nurses	INJECTOR
Picking on the large model, unknown one's brought in	SIZIST
Plant agents to catch one up early	CLARKIA
Repairs, on and off, getting attention	EAR
Restless auk flew erratically	WAKEFUL
Revolutionary nature film's set in Middle-earth	TROPICS
Sacred creature, originally Egyptian?	SCARAB
Show how un-English is honest criticism	fair comment
Sticky substance is green, with something served as starter	BIRDLIME
They boast they've at last achieved firsts	EGOTISTS
Tin, about to be returned, containing yellow kipper we hear	SNORER
Trouble when overlooking the fourth estate?	CAR
Victorian perhaps linked with books primarily	BOZ
Writing in Express, a top football official's taken up religion	RASTAFARIANISM
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1849
Clues	Answers
Armed guard in foreign sector	ESCORT
Awkward drunk	TIGHT
Beginning or ending of mountain climb	NASCENT
Box containing eastern throwing weapon	SPEAR
Cap removed from toy firearm	RIFLE
Defiant words, likewise, at that place	so there
Entrance made by different singers	INGRESS
Expertise of king who won unexpectedly	know-how
Film's starting point abroad	TRAINSPOTTING
Flog junk round hotel	THRASH
Government leader to prepare member of the clergy	prime minister
Justified, conflict with editor following angry tirade	WARRANTED
Loud roar coming from fifty entering underneath	BELLOW
Operetta article somehow worried my wife	the merry widow
Part of body shown in photo, enlarged	TOE
Parts reportedly for luxury car	ROLLS
Pound split by Italian page for fussy fault-finder	nit-picker
Redesigned seat fitted with wide strap	TAWSE
Rejected set of clothes Oscar collected	out of it
Suddenly, everyone agreed about carbon	all at once
Turn on charm, mostly to get the honest truth	GOSPEL
Very behindhand after electric current cut off	ISOLATE
Very warm, the Spanish inn	HOTEL
What Arctic explorer covers?	ICE