The Times - Cryptic - September 16 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27457
Clues	Answers
A sign of stress, getting right into wine	MACRON
Amusing fellow worker who may be out of practice?	COMEDIC
Bell tower in quiet area between two rivers	CAMPANILE
Bog giving a home to river plant	FERN
Carnivore long among the last ones in South Africa	HYENA
European navy __ not the answer to go green?	ENVY
Fancy musical performance, one for queen	CONCEIT
Fashionably liberal resort repels British	right-on
Fine covering swindle involving key capital	CAPARISON
Fixer needs to prosper, mainly	DOWEL
Millions supporting newly-formed native country	VIETNAM
Mother and girl finding way round doctor and chief steward	major-domo
Oval game unfortunately is last of the series	OMEGA
Pleased with oneself getting sweets back	SMUG
Poem’s rhythmic recitation spoken thus with extremes in delivery	RHAPSODY
Potter’s second volume ultimately is magical	OCCULT
Prohibit nude, cancelling end of performance	BAR
Rubber prone to distort? Renew after stripping	NEOPRENE
Sanction account, the thing’s getting in red	ACCREDIT
Seeming old and sober __ about time	OSTENSIBLE
Sheep fly round sierra? Likely to fall down	RAMSHACKLE
Something in wheat needs good clay with nitrogen	GLUTEN
Support rent getting left at the lowest level	EASEL
Supporters missing the first game	RACKETS
The Spanish are able to pop back for summit	PINNACLE
Trader’s warm jacket	WINDJAMMER
Travel, going around with cine projector	CANTILEVER
Truck departs with fish	DRAY
Turning obsessive over a barrel	TUN
Very old pine, something difficult to climb	long-lived
Vessel unlikely to survive being in contact with a flying saucer?	TEACUP
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1440
Clues	Answers
A frightful grunt when yours truly is involved in quarrel	ARGUMENT
After end of work I quietly sleep	KIP
Composer left after wild party	RAVEL
Composer's drunk vodka penning end of lieder	DVORAK
Cry as TV doctor facing work	WHOOP
English Queen to go wrong, having unknown royal assistant	EQUERRY
Expresses what guttersnipe is concealing	UTTERS
Fade as apostle no longer favoured	peter out
Friend of everybody ending in ignominy	ALLY
Got rid of loud female __ nothing was uplifting	saw off
I jeer so inappropriately when Charlie comes in and is elated	REJOICES
King and knight associated with a terribly wicked practice	KNAVERY
Mention school subject, and again, railing about it	REFERENCE
Most cheerful relation, one taken in by joke	JAUNTIEST
Mother wanting nuts sent around	DAM
Mum’s right to follow friend	MATER
Musician is beginning to talk with coterie	CELLIST
Noise made by buzzer __ end of sleep	BEEP
Our dean arranged a piece of music	RONDEAU
Pinned, as we are, stuck into desk working	SKEWERED
Poet marks one line __ character slightly lacking	MILTON
Seductive woman in furs, reportedly	MINX
Shouts disapprovingly, being heard finding alcohol	BOOZE
Wife terribly nervy seeing monster	WYVERN
Woman embraced by strangest hero	ESTHER
Young animal going over a West Indian island	CUBA