The Times - Cryptic - December 21 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27227
Clues	Answers
Accusing, in the past, small boy, I don’t let go	articling
After trendy numbers the writer's becoming serious	INTENSIVE
Bad feeling about despatched soldiers, feature recurrent in battle	RESENTMENT
Bird making speed over the waves	KNOT
Delicacy of record concerning first person in fashion	DISCRETION
English paper's showing creatures of land and water	EFTS
Football team run by he-man struggling to keep in charge	bayern munich
Imbibers with urgent message “Time!” has interrupted?	SOTS
Independent worker ultimately restricted by money paid	FREE
Island has real criminal being put away	CRETE
Light over small room making letters visible	LANDLADIES
Little guy beginning to employ fine performer is generous type	BENEFACTOR
Most magnificent voice introducing story by saint	STATELIEST
Clues	Answers
Pacific almost ruined with no end of plastics, an occurrence one must accept	fait accompli
Plinth only having carbon at the centre	SOCLE
Pre-cooked food in can __ hotel menu being awful!	luncheon meat
Second team player reinstated?	BACK
Securing organic compound __ container must be sound	TETHERING
Senior member of family having any number of anecdotes	NANA
Sir losing head going after maiden, maybe surprisingly quickly	OVERNIGHT
Something woodworker can hold: not rank?	FILE
Song rendered by lean lady, sung badly	auld lang syne
Thought opposing team “very hot”	CONSIDERED
Time short? Then there's little hesitation to provide bit of information	DATUM
Understand the true nature of support to the bitter end?	see through
What may be distributed e.g. for India?	foreign aid
Worker in firm producing lyrical lines	CANTO
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1249
Clues	Answers
Actor’s fruit not finished? That is right	OLIVIER
After play on words, is husband fine, say?	PUNISH
Agree Conservative needs to meet unpleasant guy	CONCUR
At work, he’d unearth recruitment agent	HEADHUNTER
Boat sure to be damaged by him?	SABOTEUR
Charge to drink in Irish city __ a good wine ultimately	CORKAGE
Forest worker phoned leading lady?	RANGER
Formal request from favourite encountering opposition __ not half!	PETITION
Initially the operatives work near urban area	TOWN
Knowing a type of pottery	AWARE
Little hesitation with tirade straying from standards	ERRANT
Neat extract from poet, Rimbaud	TRIM
Not to be used for personal cover?	unwearable
Obscure position of quiet cadet avoiding outsiders	SHADE
On return, exclude a horse	ARAB
Opening for French teacher on way back with relative __ a thrill	FRISSON
Poetry lover maybe ate these, cooked	AESTHETE
Ref had stay arranged for celebration	fathers day
Sad as purr goes becoming affected scorn	sour grapes
Seaside tree, by sound of it	BEACH
Show signs of age in game on street	RUST
Something disliked, marijuana the man’s got inside	ANATHEMA
Wrath surrounding old scold for period	Iron Age
Writer Mark’s time alongside farm cart	TWAIN