The Times - Cryptic - December 6 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27214
Clues	Answers
According to radio, precipitation is expected	DUE
After short time whale is seen in holiday location	MINORCA
Alcoholic drink not quite right for child	TIDDLER
Amount of herring from end of harbour tinned	CRAN
Baddie’s heading off to create this?	EVIL
Bit of hair giving girl, ten, makeover	RINGLET
Bottle __ something kept in a cabinet, might you say?	PHIAL
Bowler maybe who gets opener dismissed	HAT
Church about to be given sums of cash for formal events	CEREMONIES
Controversial European means to be heard by audience	POLEMIC
Dodgy behaviour with greeting __ there may be something fishy here	SUSHI
Firm is old-fashioned, keeping order mostly	DEDICATED
High time to discard a blouse	MIDDY
Hugest new dwelling by river that can accommodate visitors	GUESTHOUSE
Irishman knocking over post	LIAM
Isolated fellow who handled Sherlock Holmes stories?	STRANDED
Like bird of old on fruit tree	PLUMAGED
Like prescription and wrong pills coming from mad chemist possibly	MISMATCHED
Manager occupying temporary accommodation, desperate man stuck inside	INTENDANT
Meeting with a suggestion as to how police might trap criminal?	TRYSTING
Music concert group of countries set up	GIGUE
Property __ idiots may keep theirs, at first	ASSETS
Renegotiated rent a bit high ultimately for old country building	tithe barn
Ruler who lost his head leading fashionable people a dance?	CHARLESTON
Scholarly story about the heartless scoundrel	LITERATE
Sea god, fat, yellow and soft, surfacing	PROTEUS
Sluggish swim with rubbish around	TORPID
Still cold when wearing heavy material	PLACID
Stone circle west of China	OPAL
This writer's rubbish is somewhat wicked	IMPISH
Throat gel worked quite slowly	LARGHETTO
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1238
Clues	Answers
A ballad gripping wife and son on every occasion	ALWAYS
A French university in part of London? That’s not welcome	UNPOPULAR
Animal minder browbeat a woman’s daughter	COWHERD
Bill cricketer picked up	TAB
Bird identified by sinful gent originally in Humberside port	herring gull
Call British prime minister going west	BLEEP
Company doctor’s crest	COMB
Court with old office at the front	WOO
Diamonds used in specific earrings	ICE
Distant agricultural area? 75% of it	FAR
Fairish new role accepted by board	TOLERABLE
Farewell from a girl attached to Brussels?	ADIEU
Girl, one tailing bird in meadow	LETITIA
Goods appeal regularly __ it’s absolutely true, they say	GOSPEL
Mostly courteous hanger-on initially obeying Communist executive	POLITBURO
Novelty we set up in northern loch	NEWNESS
Oarsman involved in argument?	ROWER
Pensioner carries it over paved area by house	PATIO
Publicise young woman’s narrow escape in flight	air miss
Repository for damaged harp and capes?	SCRAPHEAP
Skives in casual wear	SLACKS
Spectacular number displays formal headgear	show-stopper
Thin coil finally used in transmitter	SLENDER
Way sweetheart goes about showing integrity	HONESTY
Young creature over in Cornish river	FOAL
Youth leader ahead of time every twelve months	YEARLY