The Times - Cryptic - September 24 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27151
Clues	Answers
A pair to hold up	BRACE
Aged don is awfully determined	diagnosed
All dwarfs, small and equal	SEVEN
Asian giant oak's last big acorn cracked	king cobra
Bottom Irish number, reportedly?	DERRIERE
Capital letters reading across from left of keyboard?	ATHENS
Chiefs formerly cross, by the sound of it?	EXECS
Completely covered in straw, a shed	AWASH
Conservative icon gets Labour rattled, almost	close but no cigar
Correspondence course's leader wearing a tie	ACCORD
Decency in good people	GRACE
Huge hole right behind box	CRATER
I don't know where ship may be heading, or what passenger may need?	PASSPORT
Large plant as it happens in books, always coming up	olive tree
Libertine in cap of khaki, one covered in spots	RAKISH
Negligent fail again?	REMISS
No way in, game finally remarkably short	NEVER
Observe something other than a buzzer outside initially needed	nota bene
Old fogey, eighty-one perhaps?	SQUARE
Optimist’s carpet acquiring shine	PANGLOSS
Orange-yellow salve initially applied to slight cut	SAFFRON
Out of shape, seeking familiar place __ working out	FATHOMING
Painting clasped, an original	LANDSCAPE
Process like the litmus test ends	DIGEST
Run, don't walk beneath it!	LADDER
Stop the music	REFRAIN
Strong stocking material with a safety device	fire alarm
Swine bagged first in physics, gold mark in college	pork scratchings
Ultimately, glamour all there is about it: flash Italian resort	san remo
Work I need is yet to be rescheduled	sine die
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1185
Clues	Answers
Add to committee foolish person who welcomes power	co-opt
Comfortable seat for such a critic?	ARMCHAIR
Different parent, not married	OTHER
Duck taking in a second year film	easy rider
Falsely said marine put down weapons	DISARM
Good to support family, sound as a bell	CLANG
Guard southern way in	SENTRY
Improvise to attend party	make do
Lying to get candy item changed	MENDACITY
More short argument the following day	MORROW
Now from the bottom, finished first?	WON
Out of custody without charge	FREE
Poor bargain for untreated wood?	raw deal
Regularly flout detectives, that’s clear	LUCID
Replaced a grim, long-established flower	MARIGOLD
Scarf, new, taken by thief	STOLEN
Singer’s TV fun	SKYLARK
Single interval in plays to demonstrate skill	show ones paces
So-called ant: call it eastern	TERMITE
Tax cut	EXCISE
Top technician reviewed cigarette substitute	nicotine patch
Witch, perhaps, one dictating letters?	SPELLER
Wood used in pelmet	ELM
You will scream	YELL