The Times - Cryptic - September 5 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27135
Clues	Answers
Animated, like a thug casing V&A?	VIVACIOUS
Badgers bring in new disease, ultimately infecting us	IMPORTUNES
Badly shod curate flopped spectacularly	crashed out
Both comrades at sea out of action	hors de combat
Breakaway group declined to let Conservative in	SECT
Breed of dog on street, unusually bearing right?	gordon setter
Build up healthily, filling out with exercise	HYPE
Cats __ over fifty disposed of by relatives	OUNCES
County with the very thing in accommodation	BEDSIT
Decoration from Territorial Army without backing	TASSEL
Deplorable teenage acts finally destroy business	estate agency
Difficult to shift, as were troops on the Somme	ENTRENCHED
Disciplined horse moves a long time after groom	DRESSAGE
Epicurean opponent hosting current party in recession	FOODIE
Haggard villain I caught crossing state	cadaveric
Hopeless days in Rome, one having left partnership	DESPAIRING
Last part of race maybe sorted out	STRAIGHT
Latest of restrictions in force affected trees	CONIFERS
Lawman from area still going round collecting rent	ATTORNEY
Offensive superiors may pull it	RANK
Official staff previously rung several times	SPOKESMAN
Rider cryptically having the advantage	one-up
S American coin cashier's taken in	INCA
Some particular premises unfinished	THESE
Supremacy accorded local lions?	pride of place
The writer contributing to series that could be tripe	RUMEN
What was gathered at the wicket about to penetrate boundary?	INFERENCE
Where we meet goddess, making final 90 degree turn	VENUE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1172
Clues	Answers
A copper assay is most important	ACUTEST
Accidentally tip out second tablet	SPILL
Admit Lincs town is out of ham	GRANT
Consume what vegetarians avoid? Not at first	EAT
Current situation Delilah often misrepresented	lie of the land
Dismal fen spattered fine leg, perhaps	FIELDSMAN
Dog I put down as fighter	PUGILIST
Enlisted man obtained leg of mutton	GIGOT
Fish in basic wrapper that is to be scanned	bar code
Flail? Success immediately	WINNOW
Fur is a blessing, to some extent	SABLE
Gathered leader of government wasn’t upright	GLEANED
Grand relative permitted glove	GAUNTLET
Have son supporting law teams	POSSESS
Home help brought up in the country	INDIA
How they might have financed the Severn crossing?	bridging loan
One in a suit that digs	SPADE
Position of switch repeated, introducing current for bulb	ONION
Quiet woman failing to be exhibitionist	SHOWMAN
Shelved stand that now is fashionable	WHATNOT
Small bird is back	STERN
Somewhere to sit? Not quite: it’s wet	SEA
Sound disappointed with uniform __ of ballet dancer?	TUTU
Taxing porridge and fish	GRUELLING
Venomous snakes’ power to inject donkey	ASPS
Was messing with the bandage	SWATHE