The Times - Cryptic - January 30 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27261
Clues	Answers
... but if south-facing, becoming much brighter	UNLIT
A note in which a managing director’s put up someone for promotion	ADMAN
A number of volunteers, note, commanded army?	TENTACLED
A sweet accompaniment with dance, almost complete	rum butter
Agent who gets back from sultanate with traveller	repo man
Alternative cure handy for major complaint	hue and cry
American hosts cool, reclining in mess as usual	SNAFU
Big felines getting in step I am thinking	PUMAS
Count on supervised girl being of high intellect?	noble-mindedness
Demanding one stops person having sex change?	EXIGENT
Displaying craft gift not enough?	UNDERHAND
Dog, as it happens, getting back on couch	BEDEVIL
Feeble old man, by Thursday at home	paper-thin
Football team with mass appeal deliver	MANUMIT
Freshness augmented by a brother’s flavouring	SASSAFRAS
Garment frequently dropping off, could one say?	NAPPY
Goes on green after driving off?	PUTTS
Hard toenails troubled one in the shower	HAILSTONE
Indian title of book one’s holding back	SAHIB
Mature person, hiding the grey, to be honest	own up
Member greatly respected long after the event?	DOYEN
Miss warning put out on air	SIGNORINA
Popular verse about teacher got top press billing	hit the headlines
Runner who must find way round rotten tree in race, gutted	ORIENTEER
Shrink with a vocation causing mayhem	HAVOC
State prosecutor getting tabloid coverage	SUDAN
Suffering: force for good later in composer	GRIEF
Superior fruitcake boy’s kept to himself?	Unuttered
Tinned meat from cow __ and grouse	bully beef
Was bothered by volume having increasingly narrow endpiece	pintailed
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1277
Clues	Answers
A pint courtesy of Paddy?	rice beer
Added comments to approving gesture when touring gallery	NOTATED
Boy goes out to get cuddly toys	TEDDIES
Comb, note, regularly chosen for musical instrument	OBOE
Drinking game after end of parties	SWILLING
Following cross going into the goal	NEXT
Having arranged fee, find an address in Turkey	EFFENDI
Investigate family trapped in toilet, closed	look into
Long sentence in biography?	LIFE
Man, superior one, and blunt	ARCHIBALD
Not feeling pressure in very close finish	dead heat
not that tears help its suffering at first	THIS
Not when the golf club was fashionable, though	Iron Age
Old priest: perhaps Miguel’s the one	ELI
One in the eye ultimately for rude girl	RETINA
Pocket in short pants	TROUSER
Purpose of French Bull, Lion or Crab, for example	DESIGN
Relate to wounded bear ..	TOLERATE
Some skint here, daily owing money	in the red
Sort of lettuce you see little of in the main	ICEBERG
Sponsor rebuilt great pond	GODPARENT
Stray, right after hesitation	ERR
Two couples, speaking in favour	FOR
Unexpectedly, nude lad’s to get off horse	UNSADDLE
Welshman’s daughter: excellent	DAI
Young rich lend extravagantly	CHILDREN