The Times - Cryptic - August 20 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1421
Clues	Answers
After the last of chips are almost finished, eat fish	SARDINE
American friend turns up with excellent port	DUBAI
Be, for the most part, extremely ill-disposed and very cross	LIVID
Comeback from a Republican claiming “fake news”	ANSWER
County name from French and German?	DEVON
Disreputable lawyer, retiring and mostly stern	SHYSTER
Drunken snob with no taste devours a simple meal	beans on toast
Important final pieces of tape disguised how paintwork may be vandalised	KEYED
Mammal's lair covered with rubbish	RODENT
MC: I dare say it represented the end of the war	Armistice Day
One taking to a certain party, say booze	CIDER
Paint Raymond keeps something for pending tasks	in-tray
Planes flying somewhere in Italy	NAPLES
Provide funds for hunting in retreat	BACKTRACKING
Remarkable reason you can’t book a restaurant?	NOTABLE
Show Mal bizarre scientific theory	ohms law
Showing excellent vision, Tokyo won this Olympic bid	twenty-twenty
Some scared lads up a tree	ALDER
Start in earnest to embrace foreign food	TARTINE
Trailer parking right alongside edge of rifle range	PREVIEW
Troublemaker tries, stupidly, to protect gutless rioter	STIRRER
Wandering around, detective wears no protective clothing	NOMADIC
Warning: she may lead you astray	SIREN
Writer entering big public competitions	OPENS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27434
Clues	Answers
Better writing from woman husband shunned	EDIT
Changing pants idea is so cool	DISPASSIONATE
Coin in large pot	COPPER
Decrease in expected wind level	DWINDLE
Desperate need to put a Bible in the post	STARVATION
Dry skin from here one might take off	AIRSTRIP
Eternal fool to accept point by setter?	AGELESS
Fancied slogan for subversive reporter?	IMAGINED
Former Kent player always up to conserve energy	REEVE
Homer's initial appears in irrational letter to Greeks	PHI
Horse to follow flawlessly finding way through?	PATH
Journalists in tea-shop occasionally drink	ESPRESSO
Kid has repaired one African garment	DASHIKI
Laughing Stalin set about military leaders	JOCOSE
Old European to sing about good in humans	Cro-magnon
Painter needing one paper getting another on first	EXPRESSIONIST
Persistent nuisance lucky to avoid fine	IMPORTUNATE
Physician in box carried by massive animals	HIPPOCRATES
Plea for short dash to provide medical help	ENTREAT
Produced note before the signal to stop	FATHERED
Protein excess ends in muscle expansion	GLUTEN
Railway out of extremely pleasant place with canals	VENICE
Runner at last conquers Karakoram peak	SKI
Sally ready to embrace East German	RIPOSTE
Set to reach maturity, needing to shed weight	GROUP
Strange tales about firm that once flavoured beer	ALECOST
Sweetener when wise man loses head over rotten meat	ASPARTAME
Weird artist associated with opera in China	PARANORMAL