The Times - Cryptic - November 2 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27185
Clues	Answers
2 sounding like twice that	TUTU
Busy with letters about 500 serving staff	ATTENDANTS
Coercion getting church to replace queen and noblewoman	DUCHESS
Dishonest part of family in Genoa	LYING
Evidently vote against party	BEANO
Film director with no good cut is top in Rank	PREMIER
Fruit began going bad in truck	LOGANBERRY
Fruit containing date’s pith, covered with colour regulator?	MELATONIN
Go around clubs banned from turning tricks	SKIRT
Help as Brie deteriorates, being this?	PERISHABLE
High official confidence in time to stop UN hardliner	Undersecretary
Italian official returned for one binge with ill effects	DOGE
Knocking out West Bromwich, playing in diamond formation	RHOMBIC
Love curry? This food store also has eggs	HONEYCOMB
Maybe harvest more than in rocky spot	OUTCROP
One with ocular singularity has operations on endless rotation	CYCLOPS
Perhaps queen’s consorts and host in drinking tribute lowering glasses finally	TOMCATS
Pink people addicted to driving?	CARNATION
Plug hole’s rims accept variable pressure	HYPE
Prevailed, though apparently snubbed again, or overlooked	REIGNED
Radical in uncontrolled movement keeping apart two Conservatives at odds	CONTRADICTORY
Rallying cry as mate almost lets next person deal?	all hands on deck
Statesman-like, still keeping Oscar fired up	POLITIC
Unconditional truce’s ending between kitty and corgi, in disarray	CATEGORIC
Utter speech hoping to sell skill with notes	absolute pitch
What offers support for female opera star’s first half?	BRAVA
Wife wears cool light brown	FAWN
Yield malevolent creature nabbed by agents over suffering at high levels	acrophobic
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1214
Clues	Answers
A mature eccentric, doing it for love?	AMATEUR
Abscond from city in moist air	DECAMP
Again considered to be recovered	REDEEMED
Aquatic bird’s back, not head	TERN
Bird, poor flier — deaf	FIELDFARE
Call up woman to receive approval	EVOKE
Caught by part of chain in prison	CLINK
Cover up mother’s knee at first	MASK
Criticise a sailor’s course in sound	ATTACK
Daisy is first to kiss star	ASTERISK
Distasteful ruling about turning up	REPUGNANT
Earn a hug, changing angry speech	HARANGUE
Heartfelt request to abolish parking in meadow	LEA
I see doctor: obvious I must be admitted	PATIENT
Implement return of robbery proceeds	TOOL
Like illegal broadcaster to pronounce his aitches	ASPIRATE
Part of body regularly stroked	TOE
Perhaps baron’s biography: look closely	life peer
Sad as some music is cut short	BLUE
Suddenly run right into chest	BURST
Surrealist friend conceals tough character	MAGRITTE
Tailless hatchling is elegant	CHIC
Time to regret being honest	TRUE
Valuable prisoner putting label in socks	HOSTAGE
Volunteers to hold up a gold vessel	AORTA
Warship offering free curries	CRUISER