The Times - Cryptic - September 6 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1434
Clues	Answers
A sort of church expert	ACE
Badly done now? Oops! Here’s booby prize	wooden spoon
Belt up one so nervous	SHIVERY
Churchmen smell a piece of chicken?	parsons nose
Combat sport which often divides neighbours	FENCING
Comic-book star rose up magically, holding that lady	SUPERHERO
Conservative sold headless pack of fish	old-school
Crater roughly enclosing tree	CALDERA
Depression in young man broadcast where personal problems are published	agony column
Doctor in private room, a person of great energy	DEMON
Fashionable basin reportedly matching	in sync
Father left friend	PAL
Fruit old and bad rejected	OLIVE
Heroin regularly taken for a very long time	EON
In station, tape's readily available	on tap
Narcotic I dump at the centre, after work	OPIUM
Perform the role of accountant, lifted by words of gratitude	act as
Prayer that gives one a lift	PATERNOSTER
See dry rot, unfortunately in naval vessel	DESTROYER
Sister omitting nothing in part of speech	NUN
Smart current newspaper in US city	NIFTY
Steal the Spanish coin	NICKEL
Type of delivery completed by member	OVERARM
Unexpectedly encounter a mongrel under ladder	run across
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27449
Clues	Answers
"Heap" and "lot" could be about right for this?	PLETHORA
Beater caught hunted creature	HART
Break down piece by Spanish composer	fall apart
Channel surfing's primary feature	STRAIT
Criticism which goes over actors’ heads?	REPROOF
Debussy's opening with E flat, cutting a section	DEPARTMENT
Give acclaim, receiving small gesture of welcome	HANDCLASP
Initially, female becoming hot and dry	ATHIRST
Interest rising then lowering keeps home cheap	bargain-basement
Literary heiress left capital around	PORTIA
Not giving in, ruined castle defends island	INELASTIC
Official work clothes for plant	TREFOIL
One who may snare you with record including music on piano	ENTRAPPER
Paper bags over old soldiers	FOOT
Picked up hamper for country club	BLOC
Playing role subtly, one moves the masses	TROLLEYBUS
Precise sort of knife left cuts	STICKLER
Raise the rate to screen Sky	ETHER
Ring operator, ringing round and hinting at trouble	OMINOUS
Short cut from port, once in motion	eton crop
Show ability to take off party food	CANAPE
Slip home, by the sound of it	GAFFE
Something dotty relative with tablets brought over	ELLIPSIS
Specialised unit of time? Request this in Paris	task force
Staff taking time out __ in other words, a possible skive?	SICKIE
Stop suffering on the phone	WHOA
Tough on one mum protects	RESILIENT
Trembling post-coitally, without way to hide emotion	play it cool
Vehicle passes through rock in a line	TETRAMETER