The Times - Cryptic - December 24 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27229
Clues	Answers
Backward old man with right hand covered in glass fragments	SHRAPNEL
Casual young leader excited about enlisting officer	DESULTORY
Colouring's routine in type of sugar	CAROTENE
Conclusion after day teaching? Sack third of team	DEDUCTION
Conclusive final absorbs four	DEFINITIVE
Exciting item in one's current account?	ELECTRIC
Film duck at full volume in 24 hours	DAFFY
Following Mrs Thatcher is a flabby man with gifts	father christmas
Group of backsliding yobs arrested __ breaking this?	ASBO
In China, The Tempest or Much Ado About Nothing?	a storm in a teacup
Jug suggests name for top medical specialism	detention centre
Love letters sent round with due respect to __ EVA!	SPACEWALK
Many standing up to drink monarch's alcohol	STEROL
Old PM right to change direction regarding a state	north korea
Perform less very old British music played in salutation	dominus vobiscum
Possibly, first Roman wet nurse's disease?	LUPUS
Slalom round a Munro	SAKI
Solemnly proclaim death of king and his mistress	KNELL
Spots hole in one stuffed with note	ACNE
Study the author’s diary hidden in beam	MINERALOGY
This isn’t Long Island!	INCH
This, wasting time, spider mite frantically chewed?	EPIDERMIS
Throw drink during pursuit of Cockney?	UNSEAT
Trust 100 Anglicans to conserve river garden	CREDENCE
Unbuttoned daughter in college departs	UNDID
Wife longed to stop boy with it	switched on
Willing to mix upper-crust elements to obtain firm backing	SOCIAL
Zulu comes after this Union soldier	YANKEE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1250
Clues	Answers
A thousand due, but cut	MOWED
Burrowing creature ruins the marrow	EARTHWORM
Colleague’s cry of pain after some furniture collapsed	BEDFELLOW
College in Munich	UNI
Confused during ocean voyage	at sea
Crucial trial, one that may earn detective promotion?	acid test
Cry, wanting small coin	WEEP
Embarrassed about daughter	RED
Endless wretchedness for Scrooge	MISER
Fill with rapture: there may be a fee for this	ENTRANCE
For business, a fine trade exhibition	AFFAIR
Girl badly upset in quarrel	DISPUTE
Girl: what to do if she is cold?	HEATHER
Hear "no," a beastly sound	NEIGH
In speech, rebuke soldiers and people in the country	czech republic
In these islands, reburied those nuts	outer hebrides
Most neat bird conceals wounded side	TIDIEST
Old maid’s existence? Her food only lasts so long	shelf life
On the other hand, look after yourself	mind you
One scavenging in hard currency area	HYENA
Poet? Almost	POE
Polite gesture held by one fiddling	BOW
Reminder it’s grand in the altogether	NUDGE
Self-control, to exercise during siesta	RESTRAINT
Speak harshly in simple game	SNAP
What felon does with melon	RHYMES