The Times - Cryptic - December 19 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27225
Clues	Answers
A plant that's cultivated like this gets new twigs	cottons on
About time animal is nobbled	got at
Accepts unusual French article that's visually striking	SPECTACLE
Acolyte is cut off crossing river	SERVER
Animals extremely ruminative, certainly, not quite right	REINDEER
Arab, retaining uranium, depressed leader in Iran	SAUDI
Artificially produced waterfall at head of dale	FORCED
Composers modern and ancient __ the latter heard canary?	cage bird
Copper reported cheers	see you
Crazy festival venue found by conductor?	HAYWIRE
Engine driver stops working with European line	DIESEL
Evil One stopping poet's game	BILLIARDS
Fast ships reached young son at sea	ocean greyhounds
Girl that is abandoned at birth	NATAL
Harriet's novel is cheaper	TRASHIER
Hymn may be amusing when king is deposed	CANTICLE
Irishman back home meeting everyone	NIALL
Light piece of furniture	SETTLE
Moderate beheaded in many cases	OFTEN
Now and again stay hidden in ruins	in this day and age
Old police sergeant's first arrest	STASIS
One boy in Lyon, not on shore leave	LIBERTY
Percy is in demand on branch line	HOTSPUR
Put up with a band on cloud nine	cock-a-hoop
Putting name to river is futile	no use
Time to be off: vagrant strayed	rest day
Traditionally they're beaten in spring (and summer originally)	BOUNDS
Tree, say, hugged by British eccentric	BUTTERNUT
Turn up after relative almost gets clear	UNCLOG
With grandmother and father, I have to climb a mountain	nanda devi
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1247
Clues	Answers
A king entering South Africa after old Japanese city	OSAKA
A refusal from Paris, soon	ANON
Change to grab at gets you talking	CONVERSATION
Cold metal, large traps	BITING
Consider Conservative, nothing to lose	TRY
Crowd beginning to build after short time	MOB
Don't speak out, yell!	SHOUT
Extra farewell	BYE
Film director dropped in before one	FELLINI
Happy matter	CONTENT
Help-yourself food is hit	BUFFET
I've talent for circulating air	VENTILATE
Martin possibly confused Brian, the fool	BIRDBRAIN
Metal press	IRON
More extravagant lover	FANCIER
Players or cast, playing	ACTORS
Polynesian mother, or yours truly	MAORI
Prepared to study diligently, finally	READY
Present in meeting, if tired	GIFT
Proust novel that's from Brussels?	SPROUT
Rear support	BACK
Relative newcomer and novice, initially	NAN
Sad after race, gradually deteriorate	run down
Sentimental feeling again lost at sea	NOSTALGIA
Stretching, stress now gone?	EXTENSION
Very typical, rural rambling	PARTICULARLY