The Times - Cryptic - December 4 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27212
Clues	Answers
A device that stops one backing horse	ARAB
Aussie Brown entertains primarily sexual obsession	TASMANIAN
Author's novel somehow flat	thomas wolfe
Complain unnecessarily after fairy creates wall of fruit	PERICARP
Dad and bad-tempered giant endlessly go the rounds	PATROL
Fine fabric that one may cut in strips?	LAWN
Fish taken to harbour provides work	bleak house
Girl in crouch finally loading pistol	HEATHER
Given to naive thoughts, remain in seedy resort	starry-eyed
Ham producer has son in for a feed	NOSH
Horse must pass round wide tree	ROWAN
Humble frump, relinquishing booze, lectures drunk	RESPECTFUL
Layman almost established around Los Angeles	SECULAR
Locks up quartet missing feminine charm	ENAMOUR
Mine is found in unlocked shed	open-cast
Notes the writer meeting doctor at golf club	MEMORANDA
Nothing like these served in traditional pizzeria?	square meals
Passports source crippled in dispute	at cross purposes
Perhaps marinade is on offer at commercial centre	TENDERISER
Poor little Bobby?	not much cop
Restrict flow in stretch of pipe	STEM
Second rescue boat finds island	SARK
Soldiers permitted to enter gym that's full	REPLETE
Start university getting into arrears	DEBUT
Test sanctimonious man God spared	PILOT
They waken us when Liberal member enters	ALARMS
This strange exam covers one century of yore	HISTORICAL
Yankee graduate covering her topless mate	YERBA
Young lover, one relieved to find Leda's assailant	SWAN
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1236
Clues	Answers
Actors associated with the French big house, maybe	CASTLE
Asian judge with a sheet of glass, extremely safe	JAPANESE
Believe to be unexpectedly direct	CREDIT
Better off dropping husband’s kitchen utensil	RICER
Black pointer __ something street vendor uses?	BARROW
Bluejay regularly visited meadow	LEA
Cooking ingredient, as it happens, stuffing two ducks I left	olive oil
Dog display welcomes publicity	SHADOW
Edict seeing energy decreasing __ 50% off at first	DECREE
Feline couples, they say	LYNX
Fellow with skills in suit	HEARTS
Fit? Yes __ unusually lively	FEISTY
Gym in southeast found by duke in rush	SPEED
Hotel destined to house first-born?	ELDEST
Initially admiral’s found turning towards the stern	AFT
Italian port, strangely no resort	SORRENTO
Need a key at work for natural looker?	naked eye
One putting money aside, pounds included, for tray	SALVER
Renovated spindle daughter finds brilliant	SPLENDID
Small circuit hit	SLAP
Somewhat naive error __ change direction	VEER
Standard help, we hear, for barrier	STOCKADE
Stole __ in addition __ a thousand	TOOK
Sullen medic outside Oxford University	DOUR
Surprised exclamation about editor linked to Washington seen in river	MEDWAY
Survive final	LAST