The Times - Cryptic - November 16 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27197
Clues	Answers
American men and nations in turmoil	MINNESOTAN
Authentic German 19th century bags returned	ECHT
Average doctor has nothing to carry about	MEDIOCRE
Church leader requires work, in padre's case	POPE
Cushion for flat	PAD
Digital protector's ratings fell disastrously	FINGERSTALL
Edible gastropod to gather right away	WINKLE
Farm workers adding a touch of traditional colour	PIGMENT
Favour old verb in revised paper	APPROVE
First woman in shipping firm starts to resent advice	PANDORA
Flame from lamp, silver, turned up a little	GASLIGHT
Flammable liquid's colour's first lost in air	TOLUENE
Food for raptors sparsely, evenly presented	PREY
Genuine error __ Queen held in church	SINCERE
Harsh Balkan, reportedly one taken into account	ACERBIC
Holed by count, stag goes wild	MADDENS
Insectivore from East died, eaten by mate	ECHIDNA
Plodding round hospital back to entrance to get sticker for collection	stamp hinge
Prime pillock gives it away for nothing	TWO
Prior to support closure of house	BEFORE
Purify copper, however briefly	DISTIL
Reflective cleric going on unfortunately bores viewer	OBSERVER
Satisfied no one's taken up dispute	CONTENTION
Secure access code	PIN
Short poem, as exercise	QUATRAIN
Small dwarf, a potential pain in the long run?	STITCH
The writer's mother departed in copper's wake, blameless	IMMACULATE
Thoughtful class passionate about reading?	kind-hearted
Western fruit crop	WHIP
When one's expected letter from abroad	ETA
With child, purchasing 'golden' cough remedy	EXPECTORANT
Workers with most seniority, those needing to play first	eldest hands
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1224
Clues	Answers
Be cheerful __ a result of hibernation ending?	bear up
Break up dislodging a piece of pavement	KERB
Bumped into Harpo transformed as a figure of speech	METAPHOR
Clean back and front of tube that’s burst	ERUPT
Eject with blaze in WW II fighter	SPITFIRE
Examine carefully abandoning south-eastern land	PERU
Fitness is beneficial to millions	FORM
In favour of western front	PROW
Kept area free for bird	PARAKEET
Matured sage Derby shows it	AGED
Mean onion tart cooked up for garnish?	ORNAMENTATION
Myself against myself? For the moment	MEANTIME
Notice run overlooked in cricket, say	SPOT
Regretted having left the last word initially to editor	LAMENTED
Rustic getting round pound fine	PLEASANT
Second journey for band	STRIP
Secret codes let out	CLOSETED
See king on throne	LOOK
Single large unit	LONE
Swift, heartless attack	RAID
Tender after swallowing ecstasy and speed	CAREER
The best opportunity of risk beside the open ocean	the main chance
Valid ceasefire, the fourth to be abandoned	TRUE
Waterfall is a problem for sightseers	CATARACT