The Times - Cryptic - August 30 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27130
Clues	Answers
A little move by a militant to the left, perhaps?	MAYBE
A river flooding nation with a disease	MALARIA
Acquire evidence of debts without interest	INCURIOUS
All kicking off, the hoodlums unfortunately swearing like that	THUS
Animal at altitude by the sound of it exhausted, needing air initially	HYENA
Borders down, cross familiar Irish county	ROSCOMMON
California city sure to bag a win	OAKLAND
Cheese, very old, in European creamery's basement	sage derby
Cocktail __ special quality about it	MOJITO
Complaint when first love meets close family member	ASBESTOSIS
Container smelt when lid removed	TANK
Extra brought to the table by beauty joining party	side dish
Fast finish of Red Rum stuttering, where career of racehorse ending?	stud farm
Gear box	CLOBBER
Great thinker, realist struggling to assimilate religious text	ARISTOTLE
Hand warmer's good warm feeling	GLOVE
Liquid in pitcher unfinished, extra in glass?	JUICE
Marked low, a poor singer	MEADOWLARK
Medium brain, say?	ORGAN
Monk heading for Cairngorms in check, Scottish peak further north	BENEDICT
Pack members in fits	SUITS
Romantic intro by a male composer is buoyant and fragrant stuff	AMBERGRIS
Sensible grass skirts made a comeback, reportedly?	RESOUNDED
She wrote detective stories, they declare	SAYERS
Solid start in heat hampered by second group	THICKSET
Sweet kid the girl shut out	turkish delight
Three-quarters loaded onto empty lorry, relatively light	LYRIC
Venerated item toyed with in bed, turned over	TOTEMIC
Where my gravestone will be placed under no circumstances	over my dead body
Wings of harpy, hundred and four tails, a monster	HYDRA
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1168
Clues	Answers
Attempt to protect old politician	TORY
Black fur	SABLE
Breakfast food, much esteemed, light, leading couples used	MUESLI
Device for fastening paper, basic? Right	STAPLER
Fruit Twist left unfinished	OLIVE
Fuss describing list	to-do
Girl from Tenerife turned up	IRENE
Goods stolen from manipulated person after revolution	LOOT
Have leading role to execute	BEHEAD
Isle I'd learn about	IRELAND
Mark in German due, oddly selected	GRADE
Most imprecise, loses time, digesting nothing	LOOSEST
Musical term from southeast, good, usable __ extremely	SEGUE
Musicians getting round resistance revealing trade name	BRAND
Note I'd backed with some hesitation brings boredom	TEDIUM
Part of the leg is theme for poet	ELEGIST
Postpone introducing objective for back four player?	DEFENDER
Regional power's time apt no more, broken up	ottoman empire
Relative from South is initially thorough, extremely rigorous	SISTER
Scottish river's 150 years editor recalled	CLYDE
She is out travelling __ mind her property?	house-sit
Shopper at first undecided, peers around, finding retail therapy?	spending spree
Sounds like couple's type of fruit tree	PEAR
Test entered by the French chartered accountant __ something to watch	TELECAST
Weary about teetotaller, English __ laughed	TITTERED
Writing up moor? Yes, primarily spacious	ROOMY