The Times - Cryptic - October 16 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27170
Clues	Answers
Alongside ox, rodent looks different	next-door
At least twenty-one strike	OVERSCORE
Being kind of naive at first, it’s going in a straight line	LENITY
Book I completed, performing research	bone up on
Drama that was painful? Never!	NOHOW
Elevated place in lounge mostly occupied by speakers, etc	La Paz
Fishing port in distant land __ a change from Britain all round	PENZANCE
Game personnel in industrial region	RUHR
I’d chain out, going free in this?	houdini act
Inclined to be difficult?	UPHILL
Lake by dark sort of rock, in turn a place of execution	GOLGOTHA
Legendary princess some feared losing has returned	ISOLDE
Losing it in the playground, this instrument?	QUADRANT
Maybe some hope crime can be contained by grand new legal society	grays inn
Not drinking: one should be eighteen?	TEETOTAL
Personal maid, one Her Majesty initially ordered	ad hominem
Pop-up blockers maybe for family film features	ADDAMS
Puff for a second	PROMO
Put out of home, like granny, over time	INDIGNANT
Queen, perhaps, given rose, moved	SOVEREIGN
Rowed and yelled, losing head	OARED
Rulings used to carry more weight when order reversed	FATWAS
Sailor securing airmen a large, old-fashioned place in London	trafalgar square
Sailors looking to both starboard and port deck	POOP
Scent left by the first travellers	ROMA
Siren has volume and means to raise it	VAMP
Special preserve of former Roman emperor, briefly married	extra jam
Will perhaps follow the rules of the game, keeping wicket	PLAYWRIGHT
Without turning yellow, body going all muscly	SINEWY
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1201
Clues	Answers
A female meeting strange male becomes very excited	AFLAME
Ancient haunt with nothing left on its roof	OLDEN
Animal in stream heading west	WOLF
Carry male emblem for the tribe	TOTEM
Character in political group falling short	PART
Country home given help after setback	INDIA
El Cid excitedly entertains fighting volunteers in fortress	CITADEL
Father and son rage	SIRE
Formality of celebrity meeting first couple of children	STARCH
Half the side will have drink after critical game	DECIDER
Have high opinion of some scholar at Eton	RATE
Horse that may be old and funny	CHESTNUT
Leafy herb? The last thing this person has!	ENDIVE
Liberation from vice learned about	DELIVERANCE
Manipulative folk with points of view about Russia's leader	wanglers
Nasty inn with dog __ I can't drink!	gin and tonic
Particular obligations __ have no doubt about them	CERTAINTIES
Refrains supporting Chicago team	FORBEARS
Result of gunfire spoiled heroic act, not the first	RICOCHET
Staff of authority to assume in ancient kingdom	MACEDON
The ultimate employer endures after swapping two characters around	end user
This person plunging into distant river is country worker	FARMER
When a director admits low-water mark	NADIR
Words of praise in remarks about place on island	COMPLIMENTS