The Times - Cryptic - October 17 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27171
Clues	Answers
… only briefly, note	SOL
A couple of girls fussing	FINICKY
Asian joke, one involving judge and sailor	PUNJABI
Bloke outside hotel, source of good news brought to Aix?	GHENT
Chapter in revolutionary story bringing conspicuous success	ECLAT
Dash to get form of identification set up	NIP
Displaying deficiency in character-forming action?	ILLEGIBLE
Fanciful act overturned, protecting particular chap thus	WHIMSICAL
Figure a small number badger without respite?	NONAGON
His curate blunders initially in consecration of sacred elements	EUCHARISTIC
Ironic study dismissed by poet and dramatist	DRY
Juice quietly taken down in Bath, for example?	SAP
Like priests in Times unusually backing animal shelter…	MINISTERIAL
Liliaceous plants taken by yellowish-brown grazers	BUFFALOES
Live in shelter closest to hand	NEAREST
Muslim star going over part of UK	SUNNI
Notes male attorney has penned backing City	MEMORANDA
One drinking beer half-heartedly with doctors in islands	IMBIBER
Position offered by sardonic headmaster	NICHE
Possibly eyes Native Americans on new church feature	organ screen
Second man splashing out rupees for cooling drink	SHERBET
Senior officer in boat starts to lecture youth sharply	PUNGENTLY
Source of strength identified by wife attending function	SINEW
Stay smeared with viscid substance	TARRY
Supervising healthy exercise	RUNNING
This writer’s against changing into a wit	IMAGINATION
Token love-bird found in northern lake	NOMINAL
US politician working in dome for shady group	DEMIMONDE
Verbally unproductive? Lord!	BARON
Vitality not recorded in a number of quarters	ALIVENESS
What authors do to listeners? Absolutely	RIGHT
What Parker displays, disturbed by current din?	NOISINESS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1202
Clues	Answers
Agree Tories entice? Not half	CONSENT
Alcoholic drink __ nothing for abstainer to imbibe	TOT
Assorted bones: a good source of food for Dobbin?	NOSEBAG
Close to Ghent, Belgian spins material	TANGIBLE
Clue penned by wordsmith in Times	HINT
Computer program to carry out check on bank's customer?	SCREENSAVER
Danger that overwhelms some soldiers	THREAT
Extremely desperate newspaper editor is despondent	DEPRESSED
Fruit: Thomas has cut tiny amount	TOMATO
Girl Americans will take to heart	ERICA
Hooligan's meal still to be cooked? Correct	TEARAWAY
Hug half of them, along with a further couple	EMBRACE
Imagine is number one, perhaps	FIGURE
Mammal climbing Sicilian mountain consumed last of water	ANTEATER
Medical magazine showing short Greek character stabbed by weapon	the lancet
Mother and I finally employed someone to help out	MAID
Musical chairs, first and last to go	HAIR
People next to trail in driving event	drag race
Regularly tell off mischievous child	ELF
Sailing vessel tossed about in E China ports	container ship
Second class travel for new union member?	BRIDE
Story of a famous footballer?	LEGEND
Supporter of Chinese communist, not a little wet	MOIST
Time to request a bit of work	TASK
We say he disposed of rubbish	EYEWASH
Without love, a day is so long	ADIOS