The Times - Cryptic - July 18 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27406
Clues	Answers
Backing horse with an appreciable amount	MUCH
Banned act top in sport	OUTPLAY
Carrier making earlier entry with misplaced aspiration	HOLDALL
Complaint from serviceman backed by Republican in US state	MIGRAINE
Considers getting to grips with home's unattractive points	MINUSES
Curse devil found with head lowered	IMPRECATE
Demonstrate upcoming range in home improvements	DISPLAY
Departs, mad about motorists and their sport?	drag racing
Eg. Panamanian chap in a near miss at sea	spanish-american
Farm animals of various colours, around fifty held in reserve	STOCKPILED
Foreign god elevated in prominent feature in ethnic quarter	CHINATOWN
Girl in Resistance initially has trouble getting up	RHODA
Hierarchical rule first announced under first Pope	Peter Principle
High church from South making no progress	ECSTATIC
I must chop pieces at bottom of dog dish	chow mein
In the company of Doctor in Distress	AMONGST
Indulgence? European in communist city forgetting it	LENIENCY
Making 50% reductions, tailor child's exercise regime	tai chi
National force in a part of Africa suppressing base	AFGHAN
Old boy on express entering part of Ireland’s capital	NAIROBI
Perverse defender doing badly? Team's boss has only one answer	dog in the manger
Plain member of parliament in saddle?	LOWLAND
Provocative Kentish couple yet to be identified	SEXY
Shade reversed in optical illusion	LILAC
Shot, or dram, boy’s swallowed back	SNIPED
Such people deserve respect, primarily in services	warrant officers
Tipple that comes in pairs?	SHORTS
Unopened Eye penned by poet one respected in class	DOYENNE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1398
Clues	Answers
A blemish covered by mother's cosmetic	MASCARA
Beginning to describe strange percussion instrument	DRUM
Comrade, drink up!	PAL
Displaced persons, finally, receive an answer	RESPONSE
Dwelling of a French girl in Cockney area	BUNGALOW
Escape quickly after seeing copper close to flat with ladder	cut and run
Extra purchase, reportedly	BYE
Extremist spoke about start of communism	RADICAL
Fellow cut rent for ski lodge	CHALET
Fine Hungarian wine needing no introduction	OKAY
Food sent back, and, for Fritz, last of barley wine	BURGUNDY
Help retired head of lyceum to make call	DIAL
Clues	Answers
Initially, neither of us is hard to feed	NOURISH
Islamic symbol in curved street	CRESCENT
Join squad, English	UNITE
Joker aboard truck	WAGON
Medical Officer on vessel gets to wear black, perhaps	MOURN
Members cheek fielder	leg slip
Saw bishop out of bed, having risen	MOTTO
Target of ridicule in genuine denial	REBUTTAL
Thin fog may be avoided, we hear	MIST
Very recently made top state	new jersey
View of country importing gold	PANORAMA
Wintry weather in south at present	SNOW
Wrong about grand gesture	SIGN