The Times - Cryptic - December 18 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27224
Clues	Answers
Aim to capture river creature from Asia	goral
Always note extremely wide female	everywhen
Amusing or silly fool	IGNORAMUS
Big growth in naval architecture	LARCH
Can I get round Exchange Rate Mechanism limits?	TERMINI
Colliery with tons for power __ this carries a modest bill	coal tit
Company invested in mine that’s a feature of Honiton?	PICOT
Decorate cricket team getting in key runs	ENGARLAND
Figure out number leaving hell	INFER
From the beginning of the season offer game course	NEWMARKET
Gaoled frequently, I am free finally at the last moment	in the nick of time
Genderless term the Irish must abandon to some extent	THEIR
Grass: some caught in middle section of besom	ESPARTO
Herb jelly covering slices of bread	GROUNDSEL
I avoid returning during deadly epidemic __ it’s not good for me	PESSIMIST
Irritable and childishly ill-behaved, destroying book	RATTY
Mind corn regularly vanishing during scatter? Here’s the answer	SCARECROW
Mutating algae form plants large enough to see	MEGAFLORA
Not out and batting before wickets?	INDOORS
One can’t know the reason votes aren’t being counted	theres no telling
One very important obstacle for skiers	MOGUL
One who boxes up gutted porgy fish	GUPPY
Prompt to include a rest	REMAINDER
Raucous number’s the finale of “Company”	NOISY
Sailor, I would add, has turned up fish	SPRAT
Shut up about regularly full prison system	GULAG
Source of power of family groups, mostly Conservative	GENERATOR
Suffering nurse left in high dudgeon	RESENTFUL
Trouble at airline among other things	inter alia
Turned pink and then turned into something darker	rosed
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1246
Clues	Answers
A sad teen wandering round university, sickened	NAUSEATED
Article sibling briefly used for dissertation	THESIS
Belonging to those people in that place, we hear	THEIR
Cockney’s mate in Dresden, for example?	CHINA
Container for wine?	SACK
Container in which egg is sent back	TIN
Experienced a French river	UNDERWENT
Finance head of French and German	FUND
Forebear perturbed at first about audible swearer	PRECURSOR
Guidance engineers are given in clarity of speech	DIRECTION
Long to be presented in court __ it’s the prestige!	CACHET
Mine sounds like one of two prime ministers	PIT
Old bloke in New York, a nonentity	NOBODY
Old man or woman, one living abroad	EXPAT
Quietly relax about programme finally arranged for recording?	PRESET
Random mud remains in unseasonably warm spell	indian summer
Reminiscent of benefit swallowed up by accommodation charge	REDOLENT
Representatives of folk making parts of wheels?	spokespeople
Ribbed southern press chief after meal	TEASED
Skill getting pitta due for distribution	APTITUDE
Sly, trendy man with evidence of debts	INSIDIOUS
That woman will fail at first: what a shock!	BOMBSHELL
Trainee officer’s notice in church pamphlet, ultimately	CADET
Walk unsteadily, initially tumbling over fish-eating mammal	TOTTER