The Times - Cryptic - December 14 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27221
Clues	Answers
Abroad, I will surmount a terrible resentment	JEALOUSY
Anarchic sellers tailored stocking for everyone	RULELESS
Bird to fight twice	SPARROW
Blade twirls at intervals in fight	STILETTO
Crime of American's neighbour probed by police	HOMICIDE
Cynical society promising to depose leader	SUSPICIOUS
Damage statuette with no head	SCAR
Dancing the can-can, I laugh loudly	CACHINNATE
Doctor nearly retiring during great plague	EPIDEMIC
Food with lots of calories for singer	DIETRICH
Good behaviour missing in pupil	DISCIPLE
Indecently intimate around cowboy, perhaps	IMPROPERLY
Inquire about graceless, stuffy behaviour	PRUDERY
Insouciant Cockney's dangerous	AIRY
Instrument untouched by a learner	VIRGINAL
Misdeed from person selling hot stuff	OFFENCE
Pie crust somewhat greyish	ECRU
Returning actor's seized with kissing sound	MWAH
Right conman losing diamonds one returns in court	RECEIVER
Roguish card player's collected funds for campaign	war chest
Screen star's taken stimulant	SUNSHADE
Seasonal food that's excellent and poor	plum duff
Servant who could be Eritrean	RETAINER
Shanghai almost needs a port manager	IMPRESARIO
Small boat touring lake's top	PINNACLE
The Old Vic performing something woolly	CHEVIOT
Wood collected for treatment	first aid
Wrongful arrest claimed by large speaker	ORATRESS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1244
Clues	Answers
ABC a kid learned initially, awfully relaxed	laid-back
Account in Financial Times is the truth	FACT
Appreciating commercial, note piece of jewellery	ADMIRING
Artist seized by girl in combat	KARATE
Close finishes in the Medallion Shield	END
Closely follow The Three Blind Mice scandal?	TAILGATE
Cold, boy dressed	CLAD
Early 17th century banjo ace played	JACOBEAN
Girl having wager with husband	BETH
Lots of churchgoers: capital fellows!	PARISHES
Lunchtime snack to get on publicity platform	sandwich board
More to benefit after reforms: none too soon!	not before time
Negligent on subject of young girl?	REMISS
Neighbour having an objection	ABUT
Not far from St Malo resort	ALMOST
One hunted for somewhere to get stone	QUARRY
Posh car seen in commercial	MERC
Rare creature? Yes, you can say that again!	aye-aye
Some sent back Melchizedek, overenthusiastically summoned	EVOKED
Something in the Cherry Orchard: Turgenev, oddly	TREE
The law, strangely, that can make you rich	WEALTH
Tories with less than intelligent contract	CONDENSE
When do many set out for work?	MONDAY