The Times - Cryptic - December 12 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27219
Clues	Answers
Character from Plato's mostly lame answer	GAMMA
County town primarily in Bordeaux	CLARET
Deep gesture of respect for weapon	LONGBOW
Demolish what's next to apartment No 9?	FLATTEN
Doctor agrees to retain the empty, least costly beds	STEERAGE
Extract of tree sucker pushed back by tongue	gum arabic
Fancy paella, top included, with no accompaniment	a cappella
First bars of tango found in ornamental box	INTRO
Fruit tree I neglected is about to fall back	RELAPSE
It helps helmsman manage after risks leaving loch	PERISCOPE
It's said on leaving two thirds of Brie, say, and port	CHEERIO
Job a disaster: a measure of PC's performance?	GIGAFLOP
More old paintings recalled	EXTRA
Name? It's rejected during recess by bishop	BAPTISE
Nasty whiff of acid from bark reportedly associated with plants	BOTANIC
Neighbourhood watch, roughly fifty	LOCAL
Old animal droppings gathered by a single lecturer	IGUANODON
Old statesman will overcome manoeuvring involving right and left	oliver cromwell
One dealing with odds and sods?	turf accountant
Pan grouse, Sunday staple?	roast beef
Plant border of Hereford?	COWSLIP
Rankers maybe fly spacecraft	ORBITER
Secure show that's ignored by source of 20	WINEPRESS
Sporting events contribute this little colour	TINGE
Swimmer's revolutionary hairstyle	red mullet
The smallest stick it out to conserve energy	LEAST
Tie in league, avoiding own goal	TETHER
Try short rivet that's penetrating	TRENCHANT
Two degrees? One might do for you in Africa	MAMBA
Without reason, happen to limit excitement leading up to congress?	BRUTE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1242
Clues	Answers
Animal found in salt water loch	SEAL
Area within locality: Buckingham, for example	PALACE
Aristocrat said to be unable to produce heir	BARREN
Briefly wonder at a Liberal naval officer	ADMIRAL
Cats, for example, can be melodious	MUSICAL
Concerned with teaching story that can be made good	REPARABLE
Cope, breaking one's high standards	IDEALS
Crush tree under motorway	MASH
Discover whereabouts? Time to run	TRACE
Exult with new royal symbol	CROWN
Hedge, given question __ tick Sue off	QUICKSET
Islander from south with a complaint	SAMOAN
It creates mist damaging to armies	ATOMISER
Maybe defenceless, but not hurt when husband leaves	UNARMED
Needle chap over family	BODKIN
Perfect example of memo deleted? Not entirely	MODEL
Pinch small quantity of spirits	NIP
Printout not easy to reproduce?	hard copy
Putting together academic paper on moral offence, we hear	SYNTHESIS
Reshuffled, a sport minister	PASTOR
Skirt the centre of island	MIDI
Something for waiter __ start to put it back	TIP
They are on course to hold clubs	CADDIES
This boat reversing would make puddles	SLOOP
Warning: old people	OMEN
With no rival, don't strain so much to see	PEERLESS