The Times - Cryptic - September 19 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27147
Clues	Answers
Aim to preserve a set of books in cabin	SHANTY
Article, coloured on the outside with a stain	TAINTED
Chief's tucked into eggs and lettuce	ROMAINE
Clued-up company worker is about to celebrate retiring	COGNISANT
Cook, enthusiast for sweet American cake	DONUT
Element of humility not unknown after thrashing	LITHIUM
Fiddle about, in need of passion	CHEAT
Game backed by man of nonsense, not a leader	RULER
Grand hospital department needing engineers in situation where things fall apart	EPICENTRE
Greek statesman has page and two men following	PERICLES
Halt, stopping short, with awful rain in sheets	LAMINAR
Hobo needs a large drink	BUMPER
Journalist, having travelled in, is worn out	ERODED
Keen on including composer's last piece of music	INTRO
Male at party entertained by individual performing live	ONSTAGE
Most stylish sixties film? There's something wet about it	SLEEKEST
NI party holds bizarre rally	drum up
Note about film actors	PLAYERS
Notice one in angry discourse exuding heat?	RADIANT
Old revolutionary caught by trick, a financial problem	trade gap
Pest upset Parliament, probing charity	APHID
Phony presence felt as deception	false pretences
Reading petition, ranter becomes unsettled	INTERPRETATION
Remain close when protecting old group hiding away	CLOSETING
Sleepy type beginning to moan when instruction to wake up comes round	DORMOUSE
Spray water on a book	HOSEA
Supply of wine drunk by long-term professional soldier	CARBINEER
Support Wolves? This might be checked at entrance to ground	BACKPACK
Tycoon featured in publication, 'name' getting worried	MAGNATE
Woman shows anger about nothing __ she’s one of these?	viragoes
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1182
Clues	Answers
Calls sailor over after first article's dropped	NAMES
Church aisle reshaped without a woodworking tool	CHISEL
City to remain in receipt of second great joy	ECSTASY
COs play recklessly with weapon in war film	apocalypse now
Customary behaviour in the American era?	USAGE
Famous archer, familiarly, after period in prison? We'll see	time will tell
Generous representation of Braille	LIBERAL
Happy solver taken aback, beset by black insect	BUOYANT
I had to follow many round, showing little emotion	STOLID
Left during closing parts of latest contemporary score	TWENTY
One suffering pretentious visiting mister!	MARTYR
Operated trial venue __ no time for spite	RANCOUR
Part of marshalling yard, Southern, is to suppress noise - good	SIDINGS
Regret about daughter showing bad manners	RUDE
Respond to provocation online, as it were?	rise to the bait
Rustic, say, rambling, gathering attention round	HAYSEED
Scoundrel going to pub and cobblers	heel bar
Second taxi delivering strike-breaker	SCAB
Sharp and tart? That's about right	ACRID
Sudden realisation: holiday finished	BREAKTHROUGH
Takes care of alien way of thinking	MINDSET
Those people having little energy for the topic	THEME
Type of computer peripheral lines available in 2000	MODEM
Very motivated to list first pair of comets	can-do