The Times - Cryptic - October 15 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27169
Clues	Answers
Brief verse in French mostly useless	ENVOI
Christian book favouring giving up almost everything	PROCESSIONAL
Demonstrate putting away hot alcoholic drink	MARC
Didn't like touring Croatia's capital, back in Split	DETACH
Fiddle one misplaced? There it is!	VOILA
Flamboyant old Law Lord entertains	LOUD
Flatter, or fairly flat?	BLANDISH
Front of chest in great pain, so could be this?	angina pectoris
Get promoted in a post broadcasting	ASCEND
Good girl we're told deciding it's an unfair obstacle	glass ceiling
Got on vessel in eastern sea	EMBARKED
Greek festival inspires king – it’s something in the atmosphere	ARGON
Heavy drinks bottles heading for tavern	ROTUND
Invalid with a nature that's sickly?	VALETUDINARIAN
Investigator on the booze	REPORTER
Item for traveller knocking on mansion walls	HOLDALL
Leave the neighbouring housing compound	ETHENE
Musical style it's rude to sing	BLUEGRASS
New wig and thong, kinky bedroom gear	NIGHTGOWN
Passage south across the Atlantic	SINUS
Prickly Scandinavian hero content to leave Norway	THORNY
Reduce by cooking in two months	DECOCT
Sordid party game	BASEBALL
The cloth sample on skimpy garments	MINISTRY
They could hack off Conservative Brexiteers	CLEAVERS
Trained to run race, his performance is telling	RACONTEUR
View short camera shot, in which a lot is crooked?	crime wave
What may qualify school to provide set of rules	GRAMMAR
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1200
Clues	Answers
A little weight UNESCO's thrown about	OUNCES
As pro in no time injured, taking someone off	IMPERSONATION
Bird __ star breed in trouble	REDBREAST
Bird beginning to fly very short distance	FINCH
Books briefly on fire	LIT
Buddy has circuit to set up	PAL
By the sound of it, giant close	TIGHTEN
Company doubled up on a drinking powder	COCOA
Fill pot, it's suggested?	top up
Fish __ one snoozing?	KIPPER
Frantic rub, action that's designed to keep things warm	INCUBATOR
Gulping oxygen, tired out journalist	EDITOR
I put in fuse for trooper, say?	SOLDIER
Indeed in prison, a youth	NAY
Level on a building plot, we hear?	STOREY
Old country entertained by bagpipers I assembled	PERSIA
Piano, say, for club	PUTTER
Problem with male film director	HITCHCOCK
Run including a fortune-telling card	TAROT
Shabby stuff that may be returned unaltered	TAT
Shambles __ first meal for Rover?	dogs breakfast
Thieving __ like ET?	light-fingered
Thin item also broad, power in it	TOOTHPICK
Use a nosebag to scoff heartily?	eat like a horse