The Times - Cryptic - November 12 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

 

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27193
Clues	Answers
A rodent from tail to head is so long	ta-ra
Arrangement for art-house distribution	share-out
Chap's rear squeezed into short item of underwear: laugh uncontrollably	CORPSE
Composer's brief to supply modern music	RAVE
Defamed a journalist backing press changes	ASPERSED
Down under, real scandal about injecting fluid	DINKUM
Drivers one's seen on motorway showing unacceptable prejudice	RACISM
Ensnare a smoker	HOOKA
Expert's way accepted by Pamela and Daisy	past master
Former duke enters Cambridgeshire city in joyful fashion	ELATEDLY
Gloomy director's position in theatre?	OVERCAST
Hit, throwing stone in brawl	RUCK
Instructions on what's regularly used by chippies	RECIPE
Long suffering soldiers mostly exhausted, invading European country	FORBEARANCE
Monk last to leave part of cathedral	DOM
Motif at entrance to this art museum	the met
Obedient tot gets back into good book	BIDDABLE
Old person, heading off towards port reportedly, finding shellfish supplier?	rock pool
Political reformer enlisted by US socialists in area of N America	LABRADOR
Project with European material	JUTE
Prudish girl attracted to Mennonite sect, without question	SQUEAMISH
Punishes sailors with contaminated fresh tea	tars and feathers
Secret group I dismissed, right away	CLASSIFIED
Songbird to flutter, chasing rail	BARBET
Substitute set to appear after second match almost finished	REPLACEMENT
Successfully tested class, securing good grade in French language	PROVENCAL
Thus row hasn't finished about accommodation cost in Italian resort	SORRENTO
Very mature red ultimately missing in cellar	VAULT
What group of scouts mostly raised perhaps?	CAP
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1220
Clues	Answers
Article acquired by remote ancestor	FATHER
Awful toothache swallowing most of cold drink	hot chocolate
Bay and hazel, perhaps, on either side of box tree	horse chestnut
Benefactor's name inside entrance	DONOR
Bursar, more confident following adjustment of rate	TREASURER
Collector's top bid for chest	COFFER
Continuous let near resort	ETERNAL
Creature in a stream grabbing frantic duck	ARMADILLO
Duck, left out for meal	TEA
Dug up material coming over	MINED
Fairy in novel (fantasy)	ELF
Finger broken after headcase forms group of extremists	lunatic fringe
First man heading off for weir?	DAM
Gem carved in relief arrived with ring	CAMEO
Gruesome Hardy monster	HYDRA
In favour of not running quickly	PRONTO
Material vital to many Londoners	NYLON
Prejudiced against fine amusement park	FUNFAIR
Primate in cloak, not cold	APE
Problem caused by too much reading, of course, in English school	EYESTRAIN
Screen restaurant close to home	GRILLE
Taken from album not intended for release?	off the record
Trust I placed in big hospital	FAITH
Variety of Argentine fruit	TANGERINE