The Times - Cryptic - October 14 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27481
Clues	Answers
Bird caught on Cornish river to the west	FALCON
Booth, for example, with Charlie and Jenny in?	ASSASSIN
Breaking ice a lot is __ part of one’s lifestyle?	SOCIALITE
Breed of sheep doctor keeps in old Ireland	MERINO
Dazzling brightness of quiet chap replacing one in home	RESPLENDENCE
Deliberately dodging physical activity	SKIPPING
Enfeebled duke, abandoning our country, moved slowly round island	DECREPIT
Gentle 22’s offer?	TENDER
Georgian citizen holds end of rope, having great strength	ATLANTEAN
Greek dramatist’s amble round end of green	MENANDER
Green pigment, one I delivered first in commercial vehicle	VIRIDIAN
Identification of disease in dogs is a diversion	DIAGNOSIS
In America, game to have drink before dance	PUNCHBALL
In Scotland, finely dressed knight’s muscularity	BRAWN
Instrument identified in general speech outside bar?	GLOCKENSPIEL
Island savings scheme penetrated by foreign character	ISCHIA
It’s inclined to go west, protected by allowance	GRADIENT
Mad about first of seed being thinly scattered	SPARSE
Make certain council leader is excluded from blame	ENSURE
Murder victim given grave at last in Poplar?	ABELE
Old railwaymen with points to look after	NURSE
Reform I saw in modern evolutionary theory	neo-darwinism
Sore about Scottish town, she adopts Irish county	warwickshire
Tight-fisted type withholding pounds from girl	MEANIE
Ultimately serious desire to be fashionable	SWISH
Unaccompanied song not all finding full of merriment	GLEESOME
What may be grave for missing female singer!	ACCENTOR
Your compiler’s about to stay in the same place	IBIDEM
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1460
Clues	Answers
A carriage returns separately	APART
Arrive, extremely lively and attractive	COMELY
Casual juries condemned old dictator	Julius Caesar
Cat more domesticated? Not his	lion-tamer
Church vestment used in several baptisms	ALB
Day cutting grape plant is profitable for wine	vin de pays
Fairy putting an end to himself	ELF
Girl, black, put out of action	DISABLE
Gruesome as taxi is squashed by horse	MACABRE
Hungriest to change? Absolutely	sure thing
Illicit to be drunk here	under the table
In merriment see to mattress	FUTON
Intemperance by immoral girl that’s costly at airport	excess baggage
Loan for boat	SUB
Look through crumbling arches	SEARCH
Lots of water, litres, to be taken during meal	FLOOD
Luxury car finished — ends up on its roof	rolls over
Mythical creature doesn’t have one on the other hand	YET
Next to boy, insect buzzing round	BESIDE
Refuse to agree reading in church is instructive experience	object lesson
Second judge uncertain	JIFFY
Strip club that’s disreputable on street	DIVEST
Swelling: hospital creates paperwork	BUMPH
The place for substitute judges?	BENCH